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MacN'Cheezus@lemmy.todayBanned to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Number of natural waterfalls in each state

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Number of natural waterfalls in each state

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MacN'Cheezus@lemmy.todayBanned to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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  • gedaliyah@lemmy.world
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    I’ll stick to the rivers and lakes that I’m used to.

    • 𝓢𝓮𝓮𝓙𝓪𝔂𝓔𝓶𝓶@lemmy.procrastinati.org
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      Have it your way.

    • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world
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      Fine. Don’t go chasing waterfalls.

  • Mossy Feathers (She/Her)@pawb.social
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    Hey west coast, quit hogging all the waterfalls! Especially California, y’all don’t have water, why are you wasting it on falls?

    • MacN'Cheezus@lemmy.todayBannedOP
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      Hahaha! California actually has lot of pretty tall mountains that get regular annual snowfall so I’m assuming that’s responsible for quite a few of them. Also, contrary to popular belief it DOES rain there occasionally (most during January and February), but when it does, it’s often heavy enough to cause flash flooding, especially in the desert. I’m wiling to bet most of the waterfalls there are probably seasonal.

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        Yeah, Northern CA’s climate is closer to Oregon’s and SoCal is more like Mexico. Or at least it’s supposed to be. Last year it dumped pretty hard from Dec to March in the Bay Area.

        https://ggweather.com/sf/monthly.html

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      Why you bugging California, when Washington state is obviously hoarding them?

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      the water crisis is largely in chunk, due to the agriculture taking up like 95% of it, as california by far is the largest state in the U.S in terms of crop export and it happens to also be the one producing the most water intensive ones (alfalfa(used as food for cows internationally), several nuts and avocados)

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    would be interesting to get waterfalls per area of land so that big states are not overly represented.

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      I mean, you could just put it all in an Excel table, look up the area of each state, and divide the number of waterfalls by that.

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        yeah and I could have just looked up all the info and not used this but the only reason I gave it some thought was someone thought it was interesting enough to post and presumably receive feedback.

  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldBanned
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    West coast, best coast!

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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      I’ll pay the waterfall tax for fewer chuds and legal dope.

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    The most shocking part of this is Florida not being last.

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      https://www.ndtourism.com/blog/north-dakota-has-waterfall

      North Dakota is so proud of their waterfall. I’m surprised they dont have more than that.

      Delware is at clear size disadvantage.

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    We have waterfalls in Florida? I guess when a sinkhole forms, water does, indeed fall.

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      As a St. Pete native I figured it was counting like overflown toilets or something

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldBanned
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      Removed by mod

      • GiddyGap@lemm.ee
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        So far I’ve traced 7 waterfalls trekking uphill from the water side. But I can hear more in the distance!

        So, I guess you hear 3, at most, in the distance.

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    Poor Delaware…

  • golden_calf@lemmy.world
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    The West Virginia is definitely wrong. I’ve personally seen more than 24 waterfalls there.

    • Boris NotTooBadinov@lemmy.world
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      You’re correct, by a large margin. WV has 275 according to Wikipedia. Now I’m wondering what qualifier was used, was it drop height, discharge, accessible vs inaccessible…

    • MacN'Cheezus@lemmy.todayBannedOP
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      Take it up with Malcolm Tunnell then.

    • captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org
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      Maybe it’s the definition of natural? Are they created by reservoirs or dams? 

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    Here in Washington it’s hard to imagine waterfalls even being noteworthy. We’ve got way too many mountains and way too much precipitation. We’re lousy with waterfalls. The whole fuckin state is a goddamned waterfall.

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    I’ve seen many pretty small waterfalls though, how do you count this‽

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      I didn’t make this map so I have no idea, but the link from the image has citations for all the data sources.

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        Link no worky.

        • MacN'Cheezus@lemmy.todayBannedOP
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          Fixed. Try again?

          • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world
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            Works! Thanks!

            • MacN'Cheezus@lemmy.todayBannedOP
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              NP

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    Neat, thanks for sharing.

    For instances like Rhode Island (5) and Florida (4), the map groups them in the same range, even though Florida is far larger than Rhode Island. I wonder how it would change the map to have the scales be determined by density, like waterfalls/km^2.

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      Good point.

  • FQQD! @lemmy.ohaa.xyz
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    Poor person responsible for counting this

  • RainfallSonata@lemmy.world
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    Those ranges are so wide as to be pretty useless.

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      Maybe that’s why there’s numbers on each state?

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        Oh. Assumed those were abbreviated names.

        • mangaskahn@lemmy.world
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          Proud to be from the great state of 3i6nesota. You should come visit and explore our majestic waterfalls.

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      If could have used a few more colors for in-between ranges but I think as-is, it does a decent job of dividing the country evenly between the two blues in the middle.

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    Fits the topography.

    • MacN'Cheezus@lemmy.todayBannedOP
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      Almost as if the two are somewhat related…

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        I think we’ve cracked it

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    It’s interesting that north dakota just has 2 being so far up north

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