I walk pretty much every day; if I waited for the sidewalks to not have snow on them, I wouldn’t walk for six months of the year. I walk when it’s cold and when it’s snowing - I wear extra layers, and I’m not going to melt from getting some snow on me. Here’s a video I took on a walk Dec. 2nd of this year - that sound is the wind.
Other than people like me who walk for exercise and pleasure in winter, as Motorgirl says, you don’t live your whole life in your house or in your car, and there are plenty of people who don’t have cars.
That makes sense. And yeah, I don’t think it would be all that horribly expensive to get a kid to shovel. It’s been ages, but IIRC back when I did have a place where I had to have the driveway done (at the time, I didn’t have a big 4by or SUV, but a low to the ground ancient Honda, and an even lower to the ground beat up caddy :D), it wasn’t all that expensive. Maybe 10 bucks?
I guess it would be a way to help along the neighborhood kids huh?
Really? wow. Yes, you definitely blew my mind. I’m making a WAG that the city lists what items taxes go to pay for? In other words, that you have some sort of comfort knowing they’re not “double dipping”?
You mean like in Cat Whisperer’s video? Usually we don’t unless it’s absolutely necessary. But that’s a blizzard. On a normal snowy, cold day it’s no big deal.
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So, to sum up, at temperatures near freezing, you can expect big honking snow flakes and lots of them. One those comparatively rare occasions when it snows near 0 F, you can expect individual snow crystals, but not very many of them because such cold air can’t “hold” as much water vapor. Below about -40°, you can expect only very small crystals to fall, and very few of them at that. So the next time somebody tries to tell you it’s too cold to snow, check the thermometer. If it’s warmer than forty below, send them up Fairbanks way, and they’ll never doubt you again.
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Technically yes, but in common parlance “too cold to snow” means temperatures at which it is much less likely to know.
Growing up in western Washington we were always more worried about snow accumulation at 28 degrees than at 18. The weather patterns that brought really extreme (for the area) cold simply weren’t associated with precipitation. When we said “too cold to snow” we didn’t mean “it is physically impossible for it to snow at this temperature.”
Barrow gets a lot of snow until the Arctic ocean freezes up. The air temperature alone isn’t what causes snow, and the temperature at ground level sure isn’t the main factor.
It’s almost as if the person who wrote that doesn’t understand meteorology at all.
“Too cold to snow.” This may be a good time to ask this. I’ve read it snows only about 6" a year in Antarctica. But it never melts and so remains a winter wonderland. Blizzards come from winds blowing around the snow that’s already on the ground. Is this true, and if so, is it true it only snows half a foot a year down there? Could this be because it’s “too cold to snow,” or is it something else?
