Frankontour
09-29-2003, 11:10 PM
COMMENT ON MTWASHINGTON.ORG AT 7H56 PM
Congrats to at least Berkshiresboarder and Loafnut to have seen it first on the boards ! (hope I don't miss someone)
So it begins! IT’S SNOWING! We saw our first flakes start falling around 3:30 this afternoon and since then we’ve seen flakes, snow grains, and some rain. None of it is sticking as the temps haven’t actually dipped below freezing yet. They’ve been falling since about 3 PM and currently stand at 33 degrees. But who really cares? After all its SNOWING!
For whatever inexplicable reason the first snowflakes of the year always tap into a deep routed childlike excitement in me and it was great to see that the same held true for everyone else up here. When we told Jeff, whom had just woken up, he bolted for the door in his t-shirt to see for himself. The animals too seemed to be slightly surprised. We saw the fox trot across the tundra in the snow with its tail fully fluffed out to protect against the chill and Nin, who had been out sunning on the rocks earlier, is now huddled inside. I suppose we looked the silliest though as we gallavanted around the deck in barely visible snow flakes!
It has been a beautiful and interesting day up here on all fronts. We started with a partial undercast and lots of sun. As the day progressed the clouds lifted and we started to go in and out of the fog and mist. The clouds then seemed to reach a less stable layer of the atmosphere and towering cumulus clouds started to shoot up, especially off to our east where they blossomed into what looked to be some pretty good storms on the radar. The other fascinating thing to observe was the change in the density of the fog as it started to snow. The flurries were in intermittent spurts but always accompanied a very distinct opening in the fog. We are speculating that the formation of the snow flakes in effect dried out the fog.
There is still some precip off to our west so we are hoping to see more of the white stuff before the night is through, and baring that at least a bit of riming.
Neil Lareau - Summit Intern
Congrats to at least Berkshiresboarder and Loafnut to have seen it first on the boards ! (hope I don't miss someone)
So it begins! IT’S SNOWING! We saw our first flakes start falling around 3:30 this afternoon and since then we’ve seen flakes, snow grains, and some rain. None of it is sticking as the temps haven’t actually dipped below freezing yet. They’ve been falling since about 3 PM and currently stand at 33 degrees. But who really cares? After all its SNOWING!
For whatever inexplicable reason the first snowflakes of the year always tap into a deep routed childlike excitement in me and it was great to see that the same held true for everyone else up here. When we told Jeff, whom had just woken up, he bolted for the door in his t-shirt to see for himself. The animals too seemed to be slightly surprised. We saw the fox trot across the tundra in the snow with its tail fully fluffed out to protect against the chill and Nin, who had been out sunning on the rocks earlier, is now huddled inside. I suppose we looked the silliest though as we gallavanted around the deck in barely visible snow flakes!
It has been a beautiful and interesting day up here on all fronts. We started with a partial undercast and lots of sun. As the day progressed the clouds lifted and we started to go in and out of the fog and mist. The clouds then seemed to reach a less stable layer of the atmosphere and towering cumulus clouds started to shoot up, especially off to our east where they blossomed into what looked to be some pretty good storms on the radar. The other fascinating thing to observe was the change in the density of the fog as it started to snow. The flurries were in intermittent spurts but always accompanied a very distinct opening in the fog. We are speculating that the formation of the snow flakes in effect dried out the fog.
There is still some precip off to our west so we are hoping to see more of the white stuff before the night is through, and baring that at least a bit of riming.
Neil Lareau - Summit Intern