Reflections in Nature: Formation of snow in winter months is far from simple
Back when the television weatherperson was predicting the January snowstorm he stated that our area was to expect about a foot of snow. While the flakes were falling, PennDOT was announcing on the news what the cost of snow removal, from our roads and highways, would be. Several nights earlier I had watched a segment on the same television station about how happy the proprietors of local ski areas were with the cold temperatures. A video was shown making snow. The snow guns were spraying a fine mist of water into the dry cold air, where it froze and fell back to the earth as ...