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6 Sep 2024 15:20:57 EDT (-0400)
  Re: White is in the winter  
From: Mike Hough
Date: 2 Feb 2009 21:47:46
Message: <4987b052@news.povray.org>
As of today the current snowfall total for the season here is 95.4 inches. 
More is supposed to be on the way tomorrow.

I made a little comic in honor of groundhog day, which is today



"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message 
news:4986c1dd@news.povray.org...
> Yesterday my mum notified me of the "blizzard" outside. This consisted
> of approximately 3 tiny snowflakes barely visible to the naked eye.
>
> Yesterday evening, the ground was about 20% covered in whiteness. If you
> imagine taking a chocolate cake and lightly sprinkling it with icing
> sugar, that's roughly what it looked like. (For extra points... go *get*
> a chocolate cake and eat it!)
>
> This morning, as I walked to my car there was approximately 15 mm of
> snow laying on the ground, and barely visible flakes were still
> continuing to fall. On the way to work, the snow cover gradually became
> thinner and thinner, until in Coventry there isn't even a full covering.
>
> On the radio I hear that the MET office has issued a country-wide Severe
> Weather Warning, schools and businesses have been closed, and the
> Highways Agency has advised people not to travel "unless absolutely
> necessary".
>
> Uh... WTF? It's not exactly like the Arctic out there! :-P


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