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Tauno Voipio wrote:

joe wrote:

You Can't tell by looking at the clouds......come on

Another vote for that - I'd also like to know whether the substance just now coming is water or
snow (and it's perfectly normal at this time of the year here in the far North, Helsinki, Finland,
60 deg N).



Think I'll give him Neil's answer because it looks nice and logical
too. I remember similar Qs at school regarding impending heavy rainfall
and answering, "Dark, low clouds". I wondered if snow meant clouds
being pure white, which apparently is not!

And what do u mean you can't tell whether what's falling is rain or
snow?

When the temperature is at zero C, there is a snowfall
with the snow crystals wet with water, so the material
coming nearly horizontally and chilling your face is
both snow and rain (slush?). Of course, there is an own
word in the local language for it, though we do not have
as many different words for different kinds of snow as
in the Eskimo languages.

Could the question contain the idea that the rain falling
is only cold enough when it is coming from a CB or TCU?

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Tauno Voipio
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