Here, to tide you over, is what the smooth, driven snow surface looks like as it begins to thaw. Since it gets so cold here every night, what is happening is that the sun melts a little of the surface that then sinks through the fluffy porous snow and causes these pockmarks to show up. Underneath slippery ice is building up and becoming dangerous, especially for Floridians.
Friday, March 16, 2007
Apologies
I promised 2 long posts for my 1 month anniversary here tonight, but it isn't going to happen. I am beat and don't feel well and it turns out that yesterday was the actual 1 month day. So instead I will try to do it tomorrow or Sunday.
Here, to tide you over, is what the smooth, driven snow surface looks like as it begins to thaw. Since it gets so cold here every night, what is happening is that the sun melts a little of the surface that then sinks through the fluffy porous snow and causes these pockmarks to show up. Underneath slippery ice is building up and becoming dangerous, especially for Floridians.
Here, to tide you over, is what the smooth, driven snow surface looks like as it begins to thaw. Since it gets so cold here every night, what is happening is that the sun melts a little of the surface that then sinks through the fluffy porous snow and causes these pockmarks to show up. Underneath slippery ice is building up and becoming dangerous, especially for Floridians.
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I'm still waiting for the "Northern Lights" photo or description. And not one snow man picture either..tsk...tsk..I'd heard that the McK Hanger couldn't do the snowman thang.
I'm sure your next post will be about you slipping on that snowy/icy ground covering and creating an inadvertant snow blog.
By the way, the Wx Channel had a forecast for CHicago's St. Patty's Day, the warmest on record for 3-17 was 74 deg way back in 1894...
(I guess that was the end of the modern ice age..aka..the start of Global Warming).
Hope you feel better, I'm sure you are "over" being up there. We can't wait to hear your Canuk Accent
You can get the same effect when you "super cool-super heat-super cool" an aircraft wing in a humid environment.... Hmmmmmmm... now where could I find such an environment (natural or man-made)??
I remember seeing such a picture in the AF Magazine (I believe it was a C-17 wing being tested somewhere in NW Fla)!?!?!?
There is no green beer in Canada on St. Patty's day.
Here in the climatic lab, we know it is the height of skill to do it for ordinary snow. Anyone can get temperature effects on a C-17 in a big enough chamber.
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