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February 4: Midmorning snow
Feb. 5th, 2011 08:38 amWe got real snow! It started in the morning, after everyone had already arrived at work and school. I happened to be in a classroom with windows, so I opened the blinds and kept an eye on it while we continued class.
It wasn't much, really, just enough at first to make the already-chilled surfaces look like they'd been spray painted white, but those big, fluffy clumps of snowflakes falling were as heart-lifting a sight for me as cirrus clouds.
Bu the time it started snowing, it was quite a bit warmer than the day before, when I had wondered about the folk wisdom "too cold to snow." It can't really be too cold to snow, apparently; snow happens in some incredibly cold places, it's just that when it gets really cold it's harder for much vapor to exist in the air, making the snow possible.
It wasn't much, really, just enough at first to make the already-chilled surfaces look like they'd been spray painted white, but those big, fluffy clumps of snowflakes falling were as heart-lifting a sight for me as cirrus clouds.
Bu the time it started snowing, it was quite a bit warmer than the day before, when I had wondered about the folk wisdom "too cold to snow." It can't really be too cold to snow, apparently; snow happens in some incredibly cold places, it's just that when it gets really cold it's harder for much vapor to exist in the air, making the snow possible.