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Hey
I know this is not Usagi related, just wondering if anyone else got a good dumping of snow yet this year. We just finished our first one of the year, a little over half a foot on the ground. Not much really, but it is still early in the season.......

Fortunec00kie

Not yet in Southern California! But keep your fingers crossed!

Oh yeah. We've got SO much snow here in Florida! (I WISH!) No, we haven't had snow for a few years now. (I live in the panhandle, so we get some on rare occasions.) We can always hope though!

Fortune,
We got ~3-5" on snow over Sat. night.It was that nasty, wet, heavy snow. The kind that bends the bristles on your snow brush so that they're ineffective. The kind that your windsheild wipers can't move. Yuck. I'm waiting for the nice powder-y stuff that packs enough for a good toboggan run, but burst apart when made into a snowball and thrown . -Jason

Fat chance here... not been a huge snowfall in 15 years...!

Powdery? Wet heavy stuff? Pardon my ignorance, but how many types of snow ARE there?

Logan Myrddin wrote:Powdery? Wet heavy stuff? Pardon my ignorance, but how many types of snow ARE there?

I dimly remember that the Inuit know 20 different words for snow. Personally, I know six kinds:

• Pulverschnee (light snow, good for skiing)

• Firn (coarse snow, not wet, doesn't stick)

• Sulz (wet, heavy snow, almost melting)

• Harsch (snow that has melted on the surface and frozen again)

• Pappschnee (ideal for snowballs and snowmen)

• Kunstschnee (artificial snow created in snow"guns"?)

We have a lot of rain here in Switzerland right, now, but no snow where I life, yet (too warm). On higher grounds, it has already started to heap up. Unfortunately, it seems to be another warm winter so the skiing industry between 800 and 1500m above sea-level isn't going to be very happy...

Can't anyone tell Bushy that he should stop being a jerk and start with saving the environment so I don't have to tell my children what snow was?

ahhh... What I'd do for a good half a foot of snow. I've never seen more than a fourth of an inch. Not much, is it?

Logan Myrddin wrote:ahhh... What I'd do for a good half a foot of snow. I've never seen more than a fourth of an inch. Not much, is it?

Well, draw some comics, sell them, buy a ticket to the north and enjoy!

Don't forget to bring some warm clothing, though. Snow doesn't only look cool! It's cool and cold!

Hey
I have spent the majority of my life in Canada, I can send you a foot or two in the mail if u want. A light winter here is 3-4 feet of it on the ground from November to March.

Fortunec00kie

Logan,
Since you're out of the loop when it comes to snow, I'll fill you in. I don't know any Inuit words for snow, I know what I've shoveled. For starters, the best snow is light fluffy "powder-y" snow. When your asphalt drvieway is cold enough that the snow doesn't stick to it, you can push this stuff with a shopbroom. The "good"snow is the kind that isn't pratically slush, but it pack well enough that when formed into a ball, it stays that way (Powder therefore does not work for this.). Wet Heavy snow is probably what you would get if more than a quarter of an inch fell where you live. This snow co0mes from freezing tempsin the sky and less than freezing temps toward the ground, turning some ofthe snow to rain before it even makes earthfall. This combines with the powder and forms really nasty, back-breaking, heart-attack giving, mumble under your breath and curse the snow and the people who asked for it (usually snowmobilers) type-of snow. Like Fortunecookie, I'd be happy to send some snow your way. It's not uncommon for cities to transfer snow from one to the other depending on the amount and if there is a need for it. A few years ago, Buffaloneed snow for a snow competition of some sort and rochester gladly sent the several truckloads. Any questions, I'm sure we could explain any other type of snow questions you may have. Jaa mata....
-Jason