On Dec 25, 2007, at 12:37 PM, Mary wrote:
32 degrees f is the freezing number. In Colorado, however, it was
never
"too cold to snow"....but it wouldn't snow until it got to 32 degrees.
Mary
My curiosity was piqued and sure enough, there was a plausible
discussion found on the internet: relative humidity is a big factor:
(http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/msnow2cold.html) -- hence lake
effect snows (http://web.syr.edu/~wrt405/normal/Lake_Effect.html).
Lynn Kinsky, Santa Ynez, CA
http://www.silcom.com/~lkinsky/
http://www.dslextreme.com/~napha/JoyOfRiding/index.htm
