Snow Question

[Cookie]

serious snow question a minute.

the snow we get up here on the isle of lewis seems differnt to the snow that I have experienced down south. a lot more like hail round soft balls.

its no hail i know its not, its like snow but not if that makes sense.

we tend to get that more often the snow flakes. any ideas what it might be?

[grab my graupel]

serious snow question a minute.

the snow we get up here on the isle of lewis seems differnt to the snow that I have experienced down south. a lot more like hail round soft balls.

its no hail i know its not, its like snow but not if that makes sense.

we tend to get that more often the snow flakes. any ideas what it might be?

You're not thinking of Graupel are you Cookie? :wub:

http://graupel.msrc.sunysb.edu/graupel.html

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I grabbed some Graupel on Sunday night :o

[Cookie]

You're not thinking of Graupel are you Cookie? :o

http://graupel.msrc.sunysb.edu/graupel.html

I think you might have it their mate,

any ideas to why we may tend to get a lot of it?

specific weather conditions?

[johnholmes]

I assume where you lived before was inland?

hail/graupel is a feature of a maritime area in a cold airflow, to do with vertical uplift put very simply.

By a similar token summer hail is much more prevalent inland than coasts, again to do with vertical uplift.

Like I say that is a very and over simplified version and no doubt you will get some more complex answers.

me, I prefer the simple non complicated answer.

There are lots of text books and links via Google if you want the definitive and complex answer.

hope that helps?

Edited February 6, 2009 by johnholmes

[Cookie]

I assume where you lived before was inland?

hail/graupel is a feature of a maritime area in a cold airflow, to do with vertical uplift put very simply.

By a similar token summer hail is much more prevalent inland than coasts, again to do with vertical uplift.

Like I say that is a very and over simplified version and no doubt you will get some more complex answers.

me, I prefer the simple non complicated answer.

There are lots of text books and links via Google if you want the definitive and complex answer.

hope that helps?

thanks for that.

no it wasn't it was Blackpool, but think thats differnt due to where its located.

we didn't get much snow but when we did it was always snow flakes,

9 times out of ten it's graupel / hail here

[johnholmes]

it will probably be partly to do with most wintry ppn where you are now coming from showery outbreaks, Blackpool probably has a more even mix, with frontal snow and trough type overcast cloud off the Irish Sea also giving snow flakes.

[grab my graupel]

You'll always be reminded of the answer whenever you see my user name as well,

so you're unlikely to forget :o

[Cookie]

it will probably be partly to do with most wintry ppn where you are now coming from showery outbreaks, Blackpool probably has a more even mix, with frontal snow and trough type overcast cloud off the Irish Sea also giving snow flakes.

yeah I understand.

You'll always be reminded of the answer whenever you see my user name as well,

so you're unlikely to forget :lol:

you're right great username

[Marcus_surfer]

It is the same here, we often get more hail and soft balls than actual fluffy snow, but its been a different case this year, with over a foot of fluffy snow in a week.