Snow

[Ymir's blood]

Not even Winter yet and we've got snow:

http://web.infoave.net/~pitshade/snow.jpg

They aren't calling for much accumulation, but who knows?

[wildernesse]

You live in the wilds of the north--we here in the tropical southland 5 or so hours south of you are just fine. :snowman:

[Skep]

That's not snow. Them's orbs! http://skeptech.net/emotipad/cache/Eek.gif Who are you, and what have you done with Ymir's blood??

[lady cop]

i've been in florida a long time and would love to see snow again! love your photo, brings back ski memories...let it snow, let it snow :snowboard: :snowman:

[Roland98]

It's been snowing here all day. This morning we had black ice, and due to 5 accidents in a 2-mile stretch of roadway, my hour commute took 2 1/2. Definitely was a Monday.

[viscousmemories]

What is this "snow" y'all speak of?

[Dingfod]

Just wait, vm, the freezing rain will come, it always does. I'd rather have two feet of snow than a half inch of ice on everything.

[Sweetie]

I thought I heard something about Texas getting some snow this year, enough to say they've been temporarily in it's presence. :D

[Nex]

Yep. As a WNC resident I can corroberate Ymir's story.

There's snow in these here hills. :D

:snowflake: :snowflake: :snowflake: :snowflake: :snowflake:

^^I love these little snowflakes!^^

[wade-w]

I grew up in Georgia, so I have little experience with snow. We got ice storms regularly, but it rarely actually snowed. Now I live in the mountains of SW New Mexico. It's already snowed at my place 3 times this year. Fortunately, it always melts by noon of the next day. My parents live about 15 miles north of me, and are about 600' higher up (I'm at about 6000' elevation). They have gotten a lot more snow that I have, and have gotten snowed in more than once since they moved out here. This is a picture that was taken before Christmas last year.

http://internet.cybermesa.com/~wadew/backdeck.jpg

[viscousmemories]

Damn, ice storms and possible snow? Are you people serious? What the hell am I living here for, then? I spent the first 33 years of my life primarily in the meteorological hell that is Michigan, the last couple years in SoCal spoiled me. I really hoped the lateral move here would mean a relatively similar climate. :madrant:

[Roland98]

That's an awesome picture, wade.

[Dingfod]

Here is a slide show (http://www.10500bc.org/gallery/slideshow_low.php?set_albumName=GreatDallasIceStormof03&slide_index=7&slide_full=0&slide_loop=0&slide_pause=3&slide_dir=1) of pics of snow or ice in Dallas.

Brrrrr!!!
http://www.geocities.com/PicketFence/3002/streetsigns.jpg

[livius drusus]

Are you sure that's not just styrofoam packing you worried into little balls and then took a picture of, Ymir's blood? It's just wild how spherical they look.

[Godless Dave]

We had a little snow in November, but it's gone now. It's 7 degrees Fahrenheit right now though.

[wade-w]

That's an awesome picture, wade.

Thanks Roland. Thing is, that pic really doesn't come anywhere close to doing that view justice.

[LadyShea]

We had a little snow in November, but it's gone now. It's 7 degrees Fahrenheit right now though.

You sure there's nothing asposed to be in front of that 7?

Shit, and people wonder why I don't consider that part of the country liveable. We are flirting with 70's here.

[Goliath]

We had a little snow in November, but it's gone now. It's 7 degrees Fahrenheit right now though.

You sure there's nothing asposed to be in front of that 7?

Shit, and people wonder why I don't consider that part of the country liveable. We are flirting with 70's here.

Oh, bah! I remember the winter of '96-'97 when I was living back up in ND...we got a total of 120" of snowfall throughout that winter, and I remember a particular day when it got to -40 degrees Fahrenheit (-120 with windchill!). When it gets that cold you can fill up a bucket with scalding hot water, bring it outside, toss the water up in the air, and it will freeze before hitting the ground! :muahaha:

[Clutch Munny]

Inches and Fahrenheit. Could you guys convert that to fathoms, rods, chains and brass monkey-balls, just for clarity?

:D :teacher:

[viscousmemories]

Inches and Fahrenheit. Could you guys convert that to fathoms, rods, chains and brass monkey-balls, just for clarity?

:D :teacher:
:pinko:

[godfry n. glad]

So... You're saying you calculate velocity in furlongs/fortnight?

godfry

[Clutch Munny]

So... You're saying you calculate velocity in furlongs/fortnight?

godfry

Nah, that's way too modern for America. For velocity, try yak-dinks per rice-cooking.

[Clutch Munny]

:pinko:

Ni shuo de dui, tongzhi!

[Ymir's blood]

That's not snow. Them's orbs! http://skeptech.net/emotipad/cache/Eek.gif Who are you, and what have you done with Ymir's blood??

Are you sure that's not just styrofoam packing you worried into little balls and then took a picture of, Ymir's blood? It's just wild how spherical they look.

People, people! There is a perfectly rational explanation for this phenomenon. It was obviously the headlights of passing cars reflected off of weather balloons filled with swamp gas. There is no cause for alarm.

[Ymir's blood]

That's an awesome picture, wade.
Yes, it's very cool. :frozen:

There is still snow blowing around here but the total accumulation was only about two inches in places. The wind and cold (high of 24f) are the worst part.

[livius drusus]

In honor of this thread and the really cool pics in it, I've created a new smiley category called Climate Control. In it you will find three new and highly topical smilies:

:snowball:
:snowfall:
:stuck:

May the last one be a cautionary tale for us all.

[viscousmemories]

All three of those new smilies are adorable, liv. I can't choose a favorite between the second and third one. Smilie tongues just work on so many levels. :yup:

[Ymir's blood]

This has been around the block a few times but is still fun:

Snowglobe of doom (http://ww12.e-tractions.com/snowglobe/globe.htm)

[Godless Dave]

We had a little snow in November, but it's gone now. It's 7 degrees Fahrenheit right now though.

You sure there's nothing asposed to be in front of that 7?

Shit, and people wonder why I don't consider that part of the country liveable. We are flirting with 70's here.

It's not really cold until there's a minus sign in front of it. That doesn't usually happen until January.

For our non-American readers: 7F = -13.9C

As last week's City Pages pointed out, modern technology makes Minnesota winters merely inconvenient. Here's a photo of snow from 1881:
http://citypages.com/imagebank/articles/25_1253/25_1253a12751_m.jpg

[LadyShea]

Where I grew up, Monument CO, there are pictures in the library of them taking enormous cubes of ice out of the lake to put on trains headed wherever back in the 1890's. These ice blocks were bigger than houses 30+ feet or so per face.

By the time I left Monument in 89, the lake didn't freeze enough to ice skate on. Global warming or just trends?

[Beth]

We are going to have a hard freeze tonight, but no snow. :( Not even worth it.

[lady cop]

i am down here in :coolsun: florida and it is supposed to be 20 degrees tonight, i am already :freezing: :frozen: , not used to this! going to end up :cold: :fever: because my new winter uniform coat has been on order since july and they're telling me 3 more weeks. :damn:

[livius drusus]

It's cold as a witch's mammary tonight, as my dad would say. My fleece blankey is taking care of bidness, though.

[godfry n. glad]

Huh...

Imagine that. It's pretty mild here. Daytime temps of 45 - 50, overnights in the upper 30s. Pretty standard fare. It's raining on and off, but we're getting sunny and cool days, too. We had a couple of days of big wind, but the temps actually went up from last week, when we nearly had a frost.

For us cold and moisture rarely come together. When they do, we can get snow or ice. Snow is usually wimpy... under an inch to, maybe, three inches, and usually on the low side. But when we get ice, we get thick, heavy Silverthaw ice, where one day's snow begins to compact and melt in the midafternoon sun, then the sun goes down and temperatures drop into the low 30s and freezing rain falls on the ice. Nasty stuff. Tears down trees, powerlines, roofing. Clear ice, half to an inch thick, coating everything outdoors. It should bring the metropolitan area to standstill, but it doesn't, and what follows is the inevitable uneviable loony tunes street action, when misinformed egos hit the lubricated ice in large metal objects and it becomes the day's news on every blessed channel (seemingly endlessly and in intricate detail). It's all over within a day or two and it gives us something to gossip about the remainder of the rainy season (until Independence Day).

Sorta like the winter follies.

godfry

[Dingfod]

Where I grew up, Monument CO, there are pictures in the library of them taking enormous cubes of ice out of the lake to put on trains headed wherever back in the 1890's. These ice blocks were bigger than houses 30+ feet or so per face.

By the time I left Monument in 89, the lake didn't freeze enough to ice skate on. Global warming or just trends?Who knows. We had the second coldest winter on record here in Oklahoma in 2000-2001 following one of the hottest summers on record. Since then it's been pretty mild, summer and winter.

When I was a toddler in the late 1950s, we lived on a farm in southern Kansas and both of my parents owned ice skates. The ponds and creeks there would freeze hard enough to skate on, not every winter, but frequently enough to warrant enjoy that sport. I remember the ponds and small lakes in the Texas panhandle having 8-10" thick ice on them every winter back in the late 1960s, thick enough for my friends and I to walk out on, chop a hole and fish through. One time we chopped a hole and were startled by a bunch ducks popping out of the hole, shake themselves off and take off flying. How they got under the ice, I don't know. It was strange.

In the winter of 1979-1980, Fort Supply lake in northwest Oklahoma froze hard enough for a drunken coworker of mine to drive his Corvette all over it. I was there to witness the tomfoolery, but not in the drunk bastard's car, thank goodness. The ice was about a foot thick, a little thinner around the edges of the lake. Since then, until that nasty winter four years ago they hadn't had a hard hard freeze like that. Then, once again, we had thick thick ice on ponds and small lakes again, even the large lakes had arms with fairly thick ice. They hadn't had ice like that around here for a couple of decades. I broke 1-1/2 to 2 inch thick ice out of the horse trough every morning that winter. Now we have heated buckets in their barn stalls for their water.

[Adora]

Well, it's a lovely 32 degrees currently, and I think the humidity is hanging somewhere around 85%, so yeah. *sits back with glass of champagne and grins*

For the record, the closest I've come to seeing snow was ice on a fountain in Amidale.