Posted on Mar 24, 2015
Annuals are plants that come up in the spring; reach maturity, flower, set seeds, then die all in one season. They provide eye-catching color to any flowerbed and can be used as borders, fillers, or background plantings.
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Posted on Mar 9, 2015
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A cloud is essentially a mass of water vapor molecules that have found dust particles and condensed into water. As a cloud cools, a few of the droplets begin to freeze, while others resist turning to a solid. Some even evaporate back into their water vapor form. When the water vapor molecules come into contact with a frozen droplet, they freeze into a solid. Skipping the liquid phase is crucial to the snowflake process: It’s the difference between getting an ice droplet and a flake.
Infant snowflakes show little variation in their hexagonal design. If the process stopped here, all snowflakes would be visibly indistinguishable, 10-molecule structures. (The word “visibly” has to be understood metaphorically here. You couldn’t see a 10-molecule snowflake, even with standard optical microscope.)
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Posted on Feb 17, 2015
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Research has proven that no two snowflakes are alike.
Snow is actually translucent, not white. It looks white because of the way the light reflects off ice crystals.
Blizzards occur when visibility is less than a quarter mile, the winds are 35 miles per hour or more and the storm lasts at least three hours. Anything less is considered a snowstorm.
The coldest temperature ever recorded was in 1983, when the temperature dropped to -128.6 degrees Fahrenheit at the Vostok research station in Antarctica.
The world record for the largest snowfall in a single day was set on Dec. 4, 1913 in Georgetown, Colo. The city received 63 inches of snow – that’s more than five feet!
The record for the most snow angels at one time was set in Bismarck, ND, on Feb. 17, 2007, when a couple of schools joined forces to create 8,962 snow angels.
The world record for snowfall in a season goes to the Mt. Baker ski area in Washington State for its 1,140 inches (about 95 feet) of snow in the 1998/1999 winter season.
Every winter at least one septillion (that is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) snow crystals fall from the sky!
Ten inches of snow melts down to only 1 inch of water.
“Romantic Feelings” – the world’s largest snow sculpture – was 656 feet long and 115 feet tall. A team of 600 amazing sculptors unveiled it at the Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival held on Dec. 20, 2007.
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Posted on Feb 3, 2015
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10 Things You May Not Know About Snow
1. An average snowflake is made up of 180 billion molecules of water.
2. Around 12% of the Earth’s land surface is covered in permanent snow and ice.
3. Each year an average of 105 snow-producing storms affect the continental United States. A typical storm will have a snow-producing lifetime of two to five days and will bring snow to portions of several states.
4. All snowflakes have six sides.
5. Rochester, New York is the snowiest large city in the U.S., averaging 94 inches of snow a year.
6. Chionophobia is a fear of snow.
7. Snow is actually colorless. What little sunlight is absorbed by snow is absorbed uniformly over the wavelengths of visible light thus giving snow its white appearance.
8. People buy more cakes, cookies and candies than any other food when a blizzard is in the forecast.
9. A blizzard occurs when you can’t see for 1/4 mile. The winds are always 35 miles an hour or more. The storm must last at least 3 hours to be classed as a blizzard. If any of these conditions are less, it is only a snowstorm.
10. The average snowflake falls at a speed of 3.1 miles per hour. (5 kilometers)
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Posted on Jan 21, 2015
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Snow Characteristics
Snow is an accumulation of packed ice crystals, and the condition of the snowpack determines a variety of qualities, such as color, temperature, and water equivalent. As weather conditions change, the snowpack can change as well, and this affects the characteristics of the snow.
The colors of snow
Generally, snow and ice present us with a uniformly white appearance. This is because visible light is white. Most all of the visible light striking the snow or ice surface is reflected back without any particular preference for a single color. Most natural materials absorb some sunlight, which gives them their color. Snow, however, reflects most of the sunlight, creating a white appearance.
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However, snow may also appear blue. As light waves travel into the snow or ice, the ice grains scatter a large amount of light. If light travels over any distance, it must survive many such scattering events. That is, it must keep scattering and not be absorbed. The observer sees the light coming back from the near surface layers after it has been scattered or bounced off other snow grains only a few times and it still appears white. This absorption is preferential: More red light is absorbed than blue. The difference in absorption is small, but is enough that over a considerable distance, say a meter (3.3 feet) or more, photons emerging from the snow layer tend to be made up of more blue light than red light. For instance, if you were to poke a hole in the snow and look down into the hole, you may see a bluish color. In each case, the blue light is the product of a relatively long travel path through the snow or ice. Think of the ice or snow layer as a filter. If it is only a centimeter (0.39 inches) thick, all the light makes it through, but if it is about one meter (3.3 feet) thick, mostly blue light makes it through.
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Posted on Jan 7, 2015
The Blizzard of 1888
In spite of these advances in their struggle against snow, the notorious "Blizzard of 1888" paralyzed the Northeast after three days of snow, wind, and freezing weather. During the blizzard, between 0.75 and 1.25 meters (2.5 and 4 feet) of snow fell, and drifts were reported to cover entire first stories of buildings. Carts and carriages in the streets were abandoned and buried by snow as drivers realized the futility of their endeavors. Schools, city railroads, and public offices were closed, and even New York's elevated railways were victim to the mounting drifts. Passenger trains headed for New York were trapped for two days in drifts exceeding 6 meters (20 feet), and jammed the tracks for more than 1.6 kilometers (1 mile) outside of the city. More than 400 people lost their lives in this storm.
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Posted on Dec 25, 2014
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In 1923, the brothers Hans and Even Øveraasen of Norway constructed an early snowplow for use on cars. This proved to be the start of a tradition in snow-clearing equipment for roads, railways[and airports, as well as the foundation of the company Øveraasen Snow Removal Systems. Carl Frink of Clayton, New York, USA was also an early manufacturer of automobile-mounted snowplows. His company, Frink Snowplows, now Frink-America, was founded by some accounts as early as 1920.
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