Comments | groovetini: huh...

groovetini

huh...

Dec 27, 2006 01:12

Somehow, it's dumped about 2" of snow. How the hell did that happen?

Comments 6

Snow! patrick December 27 2006, 09:18:29 UTC

Time to load snow in the bong again!

I took a picture!

kelkesh December 27 2006, 14:06:52 UTC

uh, it was freezing cold out?

lamprey263 December 28 2006, 05:44:58 UTC

Where did it dump two inches of snow?

groovetini December 28 2006, 20:20:13 UTC

At the south end of lake sammamish, in bellevue.

chris00seven December 28 2006, 20:34:54 UTC

It was more like 4-5 inches up on top of the hill :-) All the local news people were reporting from Matthew's Thriftway.

this is how the hell it happened tigerlvr52 December 29 2006, 04:58:03 UTC

Snow falls from clouds that contain enough cloud droplets and ice crystals for precipitation to form. In order for snow to reach the ground without melting, the wet bulb temperature of the air near the ground must be belowfreezing. The wet bulb temperature is the temperature measured by a thermometer that has a little wet sock covering the bulb before it is swung in a circle in the air.
Thus, you can have snow fall reaching the ground even when the air temperature is slightly above freezing.