wrote:
One of my 8 year old son's class assignment questions reads, "How can
you look at the clouds and know if it is about to snow?". Never having
seen snow, I hadn't the foggiest idea. Asked a few friends and none
knows either! A quick search on the internet but came up blank,
probably because I haven't given the keywords that might elicit the
correct answer. Wonder who here (Dubai, UAE) came up with such an
irrelevant question!

There are two things that anyone who lives were I do can easily
tell you, 1) you can't look at a cloud and tell if it is going
to snow, and 2) Eskimos don't have any more works for snow than
people who speak other languages (English, for example).

It snows at least a trace on more than half the days here for
some 8 or 9 months of the year, and nearly half of the days even
in the months that have less snow. (Not that it ever adds up to
much, as we only get about 2 feet total in a whole year.)

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Floyd L. Davidson http://www.apaflo.com/floyd_davidson
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)