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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] dev null> 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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On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:41:57 -0500, Francois Labreque wrote:
> Taken on March 8, 2008, at 3pm. Notice how dark it was! It was the 6th
> (and last!) snow storm of the winter, each dumping more than 30cm of
> snow.
Impressive, but a lot of that looks like drifts rather than accumulation
of precipitation. ;-)
Of course, now I can't find the photos I took from a couple years ago
here in Utah. ;-)
Jim
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>> I wonder if you could somehow plot this on a circular graph with a
>> 12-month cycle?
>
> Anything's possible, but conclusions are left as an exercise for the
> reader.
> (divisions are 5 degrees Celsius.)
Cool, but how about having the centre point as the minimum temperature in
the dataset rather than zero - it looks a bit confusing with the negatives
going into June and July - still really cool though - did you use POV for
that?
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Invisible wrote:
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> OOC, how much snow is there in the various other parts of the world
> where POVers are reading this??
Southern Finland (~80km north from Helsinki central), somewhere around
15-20cm and been on the ground for a week or two.
-Aero
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> Yes. I was saying, in a theoretical context, people often assume that
> objects collide with no deformation, but presumably in the real world this
> never actually happens...
I have never heard the assumption that the objects don't deform. Assuming
small elastic deformations during the collision is popular, or even small
inelastic deformations, but never *no* deformation...
Even at school I remember doing the coefficient of restitution in physics
classes, that allows you to calculate what happens during inelastic
collisions:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coefficient_of_restitution
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Francois Labreque wrote:
> To paraphrase Crocodile Dundee: "That's not a snow storm. THIS is a
> snow storm!"
>
> http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2020/2318998403_8d35c71609_o.jpg
>
> Taken on March 8, 2008, at 3pm. Notice how dark it was! It was the 6th
> (and last!) snow storm of the winter, each dumping more than 30cm of snow.
>
> The following pictures are as we dug ourselves out, the next day.
>
> http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3498/3248690953_d3894342b9_o.jpg
> http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3362/3249518750_dff6685631_b.jpg
OMG! LOL!
I'm loving the way the snow is piled higher than an adult human... ;-)
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This guy has a big job ahead of him...
http://englishrussia.com/images/norilsk_cars/2.jpg
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scott wrote:
> This guy has a big job ahead of him...
>
> http://englishrussia.com/images/norilsk_cars/2.jpg
THIS IS A SNOW STORM!! :-D
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Invisible wrote:
> Yeah, maybe. I guess the government doesn't want to hear the whole "why
> didn't you warn people?" thing, or "why didn't you take action?". (OTOH,
> it didn't seem to be a problem for New Orleans...)
I'm pretty sure the people knew a hurricane was coming towards their
city, and that they knew their city was built below sea level. Not my
fault they didn't get out of the way.
Regards,
John
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And lo On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:35:18 -0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> did
spake thusly:
> I can remember 1995 or so, there was a lot of snow one day. About 20 cm
> or so. Not huge, but a lot. Nobody seemed to really pay much attention.
> A few people got slightly stuck or something, but nobody considered it a
> big deal. Yet today, it's a catastrophy... hmm.
That's because the snow fell somewhere up North, this time it fell
somewhere important ;-).
--
Phil Cook
--
I once tried to be apathetic, but I just couldn't be bothered
http://flipc.blogspot.com
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