Comments on: Standing out in the cold because I want to get wet http://www.serialdeviant.org/weblog/2008/01/03/standing-out-in-the-cold-because-i-want-to-get-wet/ candour is good Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:52:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Terry http://www.serialdeviant.org/weblog/2008/01/03/standing-out-in-the-cold-because-i-want-to-get-wet/#comment-140694 Terry Fri, 04 Jan 2008 03:00:39 +0000 http://www.serialdeviant.org/weblog/2008/01/03/standing-out-in-the-cold-because-i-want-to-get-wet/#comment-140694 I love snow too but it happens so infrequently in Sacramento that more than 1 cm would shut down the city. It also means that heating bills will be huge since so many older homes are uninsulated/under-insulated. Snow is much preferred to freezing rain or ice storms. "...why the temperature needs to rise before snow will fall..." Well, usually there needs to be some water vapour in a weather front for precipitation. In California, for a slight majority of the time, the temperature warms up in when it rains due to most of the wet weather fronts coming from the tropical region. There is even a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pineapple_Express" rel="nofollow">Wiki entry on it.</a> I love snow too but it happens so infrequently in Sacramento that more than 1 cm would shut down the city. It also means that heating bills will be huge since so many older homes are uninsulated/under-insulated. Snow is much preferred to freezing rain or ice storms.

“…why the temperature needs to rise before snow will fall…”

Well, usually there needs to be some water vapour in a weather front for precipitation. In California, for a slight majority of the time, the temperature warms up in when it rains due to most of the wet weather fronts coming from the tropical region. There is even a Wiki entry on it.

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