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Old 02-21-2010, 05:24 PM
 
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I noticed real fine snow falling last night. I don't remember seeing snow like this where I grew up back east. It was always big flakes that stuck together and made good snowballs. I guess I could find some weather forum and ask. Just wondered.
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Old 02-21-2010, 05:51 PM
 
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That is dry snow with less water content than you are used to seeing back east. It is so fine and powdery that it doesn't make a particularly good snowman. I've seen this in Colorado in the winter when I was up there. The bigger flakes are always tagged as heavy wet snow by the weather people.
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Old 02-21-2010, 05:53 PM
 
Location: Denver 'burbs
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... that it doesn't make a particularly good snowman. ...
No...but it's great for skiing!
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Old 02-21-2010, 06:28 PM
 
Location: Wyoming
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It's mostly a result of cold air. Snowflakes are big and wet when it' snowing at 32 degrees, small and dry when it's zero.
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Old 02-21-2010, 06:55 PM
 
Location: Spots Wyoming
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It was probably the result of freezing fog. You get ice crystals that are real fine instead of snow coming down from clouds.
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Old 02-21-2010, 06:58 PM
 
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Our flakes were small too, but when I got out to scoop, it was definitely "wetter" and heavier than the larger snowfalls in December. A sign, I think, that spring snows are around the corner.
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Old 02-22-2010, 04:00 AM
 
Location: Sheridan
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Cold dry air, the colder the air is the less water its able to hold. A lot of Wyoming snow is "dry", compress a foot of it and the actual water content is under 1/4". Also what you see with big wet snow flakes when its warmer is that they're not a single snow flake but clumps of snowflakes. This happens when the atmosphere is warmer and the snowflakes partially melt and stick together .
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