Bumping Lake is a lake and reservoir along the course of the Bumping River, in Yakima County, Washington state, USA. Bumping Lake has also named as "Lake Plehnam" by Preston's Map of Oregon and Washington in the 1850s, and "Tannum Lake" by the United States General Land Office Map of Washington of 1897.[1]
| Bumping Lake | |
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  Bumping Lake | |
| Location | Yakima County, Washington |
| Coordinates | 46°51′05″N 121°19′09″W / 46.8513°N 121.3193°W |
| Type | reservoir, natural |
| Primary inflows | Bumping River |
| Primary outflows | Bumping River |
| Catchment area | 68 sq mi (180 km2) |
| Basin countries | United States |
| Max. length | 3 mi (4.8 km) |
| Max. width | 0.5 mi (0.80 km) |
| Water volume | 0.01 cu mi (0.042 km3) |
| Surface elevation | 3,426 ft (1,044 m) |
The lake is used as a storage reservoir for the Yakima Project, an irrigation project run by the United States Bureau of Reclamation. Although a natural lake, Bumping Lake's capacity and discharge is controlled by Bumping Lake Dam, a 60-foot (18 m) high earthfill structure built in 1910 and modified in the 1990s. As a storage reservoir, Bumping Lake's active capacity is 33,700 acre⋅ft (41.6 million m3).[2]
Climate
edit| Climate data for Bumping Lake | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °F (°C) | 60 (16) |
60 (16) |
73 (23) |
80 (27) |
89 (32) |
94 (34) |
101 (38) |
98 (37) |
94 (34) |
85 (29) |
66 (19) |
61 (16) |
101 (38) |
| Mean daily maximum °F (°C) | 33.8 (1.0) |
38.1 (3.4) |
42.1 (5.6) |
49.9 (9.9) |
59.3 (15.2) |
65.9 (18.8) |
75.5 (24.2) |
75.6 (24.2) |
68.3 (20.2) |
55.8 (13.2) |
41.9 (5.5) |
33.7 (0.9) |
53.3 (11.8) |
| Mean daily minimum °F (°C) | 16.4 (−8.7) |
17.4 (−8.1) |
21.2 (−6.0) |
26.6 (−3.0) |
33.4 (0.8) |
39.3 (4.1) |
43.5 (6.4) |
42.7 (5.9) |
37.9 (3.3) |
30.4 (−0.9) |
23.1 (−4.9) |
18.0 (−7.8) |
29.2 (−1.6) |
| Record low °F (°C) | −38 (−39) |
−35 (−37) |
−18 (−28) |
−3 (−19) |
13 (−11) |
22 (−6) |
27 (−3) |
23 (−5) |
17 (−8) |
−5 (−21) |
−12 (−24) |
−28 (−33) |
−38 (−39) |
| Average precipitation inches (mm) | 7.82 (199) |
5.74 (146) |
4.48 (114) |
2.30 (58) |
1.71 (43) |
1.40 (36) |
0.60 (15) |
0.66 (17) |
1.62 (41) |
4.13 (105) |
7.35 (187) |
9.11 (231) |
46.92 (1,192) |
| Average snowfall inches (cm) | 58.5 (149) |
38.2 (97) |
27.2 (69) |
7.4 (19) |
0.7 (1.8) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
3.2 (8.1) |
25.6 (65) |
46.6 (118) |
207.4 (526.9) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.01 in) | 17 | 15 | 15 | 11.5 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 15.5 | 16 | 139 |
| Average snowy days (≥ 0.1 in) | 12 | 11 | 8.5 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 7.5 | 12 | 53.5 |
| Source: [3] | |||||||||||||
References
edit- ^ Meany, Edmond S. (1923). Origin of Washington Geographic Names. University of Washington Press. p. 31. ISBN 9780598974808.
- ^ Yakima Project Archived 2007-04-30 at the Wayback Machine, United States Bureau of Reclamation.
- ^ "Bumping Lake, Washington". Western Regional Climate Center. Retrieved July 11, 2016.
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