Thanks for this, Barb—very interesting! Our foot deep snow of a few days ago has almost all melted here in Scotland and the whole of the UK is being swept over today by what the Met Office are calling "Storm Isha". It is weird here as we are about the last to be hit in the far north and we have been sitting here in the calm waiting for it later tonight. Everything is battened down outside our house!😁
You sound well prepared! We have some warmer weather coming to the central US that has been under this Arctic blast for a while. We'll be melting off some snow, too, and I can't wait!
We traveled to New York last week and it snowed! It was the cotton ball kind. This is because it wasn’t very cold, am I correct? Would that also be the aggregate? It’s so terrible to think of so many people dying in a blizzard! :(
You've got it! Those were probably aggregates of dendrites - the prettiest, most optimal snow for big fluff. Those flakes were made in a moist layer with ideal temperatures.
And I agree - how terrible it must have been, especially because so many of the deaths were schoolchildren. :(
Thanks for this, Barb—very interesting! Our foot deep snow of a few days ago has almost all melted here in Scotland and the whole of the UK is being swept over today by what the Met Office are calling "Storm Isha". It is weird here as we are about the last to be hit in the far north and we have been sitting here in the calm waiting for it later tonight. Everything is battened down outside our house!😁
You sound well prepared! We have some warmer weather coming to the central US that has been under this Arctic blast for a while. We'll be melting off some snow, too, and I can't wait!
We traveled to New York last week and it snowed! It was the cotton ball kind. This is because it wasn’t very cold, am I correct? Would that also be the aggregate? It’s so terrible to think of so many people dying in a blizzard! :(
You've got it! Those were probably aggregates of dendrites - the prettiest, most optimal snow for big fluff. Those flakes were made in a moist layer with ideal temperatures.
And I agree - how terrible it must have been, especially because so many of the deaths were schoolchildren. :(