Re: Wind chill

From: John Woodgate (jmw_at_jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk)
Date: 01/30/05 

Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 21:10:40 +0000

I read in sci.electronics.design that Spehro Pefhany <speffSNIP@interlog
DOTyou.knowwhat> wrote (in <22hqv0hlgais1m7hbkpsmbocagjncs53mk@4ax.com>)
about 'Wind chill', on Sun, 30 Jan 2005:

> Unusually, most of that accumulated snowfall took
>place in very cold conditions, so the snow was very powdery (crunchy
>underfoot).

We had some of that a few years ago, and it was fine enough to get
through the vent grilles of our electric train motors, putting them out
of action. Some railway PR droid achieved immortality by describing it
to the media as 'the wrong sort of snow'.

My observation is that the flake size is inversely proportional to some
direct function of the difference between the air temperature and the
freezing point. We had a small snowfall here the other day with BIG
flakes. It melted within an hour. 

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