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Craziest weather phenominon ever.
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Okay so I've been meaning to ask some Tahoe locals about this for a while. Last March in Tahoe during the last big storm of the year, it snow at like 34 degrees with really wet heavy snow. The next morning I went skiing again and that same snow had become extremely dry light snow overnight. Now in Idaho where I hail from in this same situation the colder temperatures of the night would have frozen the wet snow pretty hard or at least left it with a terrible breakable crust on top. So what the hell happened in Tahoe. One of the locals told me it was because of the inversion. That some how it caused the water in the snow to be drawn out. Somebody please explain this to me because by all of my previous experience wht happened it literally impossible.
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well if a dry airmass moved in following the storm, and the snow was made up largely of unfrozen water, alot of the water could have simply evaporated out of the snow on the ground. In many cases too extremely dry air, water will difuse directly from ice to air. On northeast peaks this is why rime ice dissappears after a few non moist days. I definately think what happened at tahoe was following the storm a cold dry airmass moved in tho....hope that helps
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it can rain at 10 degress up here in ak, i dunno how its possible but it does
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You only need one warm layer of air for it to rain and not snow.
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it probably has something to do with the elevation... like the water evaporates before it can freeze.
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sublimation. the solid h20 in the snow turns straight into vapor, no liquid stage.
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That sounds kind of strange... Anywho, tell me, have you ever had it snow in the middle of the summer?
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^every summer in Tahoe for the past 10-years we have had snow at least once
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Damnit... Alright I lied... We never get snow in the summer here.
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possibly the high altitude
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ask a scientist not a skier
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its called humidity, and when there is none, it sucks all the moisture out of the snow...
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hahaha silly where hes from hes almost at sea level, where i am from we are about 400-600 feet above sea level. it does rain on occassion when it should snow and i curse those days.
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your more informative than the guy that gets paid to do the weather
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