1/31/2024 0 Comments Wapiti jasper weatherWe made dinner in the back of our car because of the wind and went to bed shortly after. We could even hear the sound of the river from our campsite. Many of the sites are small and out in the open, but it was quiet, which is all we cared about. We then drove to Wapiti Campground where we planned to spend the next two nights. The way back down to the parking lot is steep, but short. From there it’s a short push up another hill to reach the highest point, which provides a nice view of the town below. The first hill contains a pair of the Parks Canada Red Chairs that overlook the mountains. The path winds through the forest and involves a few steep sections that lead up a hill, or rather hills. We continued our drive through Jasper and stopped in town to hike the Old Fort Point Trail (3.8km loop, rated moderate). There’s a short and easy path that leads to a viewing platform that overlooks the river and former site of a fur trade post. We then stopped at the Jasper House National Historic Site. The path leads up to a viewing platform that provides sweeping views into the valley below. The lower mine loop was mostly flat and followed along a paved path while the upper mine loop (key word being up), gave us a preview of what hiking in the mountains is like. It leads through an old mine site and passes some remnants from the past. The trail consists of a lower (900m loop, rated easy) and upper portion (1.7km loop, rated moderate) to form a longer loop. We hopped in the car and drove back towards the highway, stopping at the next parking lot to hike along the Mine Trail. There’s also a short trail that leads to the Miette Campground, but we had other plans for the day. It’s a short walk from the parking lot to a bridge that overlooks the falls. We first checked out a viewpoint of Punchbowl Falls. We entered Jasper in the early afternoon from the east near the Miette Hot Springs. We stocked up on supplies and drove to Jasper, the first stop on our road trip through the Canadian Rockies. We then had to head back to the airport first thing the next morning to pick up our car. Instead we took an outrageously expensive taxi to our accommodations near the airport. Due to some changes with our itinerary and delays at the airport, we landed well after midnight, which meant that the car rental place was closed. We flew into Edmonton super late the night before. It offers many outstanding opportunities to hike, camp and just enjoy the beautiful outdoors. It is best known for its vast wilderness, majestic mountains, turquoise lakes and abundant wildlife. The ability to estimate precipitation over large areas of ocean and land makes IMERG a valuable complement to more traditional precipitation observations from ground-based radars and rain gauges.Jasper National Park is the largest national park in the Canadian Rockies. NASA’s IMERG algorithm combines data from multiple satellites to give meteorologists and water resource managers access to near-realtime views of storm systems like Jasper. The Australian Bureau of Meteorology reported that some isolated locations near Port Douglas and Cairns saw even greater amounts, in excess of 2000 millimeters. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, which collects data from an international network of rain gauges, reported monthly precipitation totals for the period ending on December 19 in excess of 600 millimeters in North Queensland as well, in a pattern broadly consistent with the IMERG totals. By the end of the animation, precipitation totals along parts of Far North Queensland’s east coast, including the areas around Port Douglas and Cairns, were estimated to have exceeded 600 millimeters (~24 inches). Cloudiness is shown in shades of white/gray using infrared geosynchronous satellite data. White contour lines highlight areas that exceeded 600 millimeters (~24 inches) of accumulated precipitation during the same time period. The above animation shows precipitation rates (in blue/yellow shading) and accumulations (in green/purple shading) from NASA’s IMERG multi-satellite product from Dec.
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