sugar snow is cool. no, i mean it. its scientific name is graupel (there’s one for the scrabble board when you have an a,u and e that you don’t quite how to use). it’s formed when snow falls through a supercooled layer of water. the water gloms onto the snowflake but the conditions are just right that the water instantaneously crystalizes.
Excellent analogy
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Beautiful picture!
I have fallen in love with your 3-liners 🙂
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Thank you Indria
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I’m smiling at the one green blade in the midst of the snow.
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and naturally you would notice it! 🙂
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okay, not to get all nerdy here, but…
sugar snow is cool. no, i mean it. its scientific name is graupel (there’s one for the scrabble board when you have an a,u and e that you don’t quite how to use). it’s formed when snow falls through a supercooled layer of water. the water gloms onto the snowflake but the conditions are just right that the water instantaneously crystalizes.
exiting nerdiness.
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Not nerdy! SO cool!! Thanks for sharing. And I always love a new word!! Graupel is a great one! Thanks!
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ah, the finer points of meteorology. i wanted to be a meteorologist when i grew up. became a mathematician instead.
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Reblogged this on luc20090's Blog.
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This must be what the fairies eat in winter!
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🙂
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Perfect!
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Perfect description!
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Lol… this is your answer to my question about snow!
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Love it! A keeper. (The comments are fun too.)
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Beautifully caught.
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