Completely off-topic help needed :)

On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 07:39:38 -0800, joe wrote:

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

Sure you can. If you get a snowflake in your eye when looking at the
clouds, it's snowing.

Laugh

- Andrew

"Andrew Gideon" wrote in message
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On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 07:39:38 -0800, joe wrote:

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

Sure you can. If you get a snowflake in your eye when looking at the
clouds, it's snowing.

If all the kids are looking upward with their tongues sticking out, it's
snowing.

-c

Andrew Gideon wrote:
On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 07:39:38 -0800, joe wrote:


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


Sure you can. If you get a snowflake in your eye when looking at the
clouds, it's snowing.

Laugh

- Andrew


And if the flake is embedded in a waterdrop?

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Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio (at) iki fi

Recently, posted:

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!

Any Canadians here who can help? Or anyone near Chicago (snows there,
right?)?

Thanks much in advance and apologies to the rest,

If you look at the clouds and it looks like it will rain, but the
temperatures are below 32° F, it will most likely snow...

Neil

"Neil Gould" wrote:
Recently, posted:

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!

Any Canadians here who can help? Or anyone near Chicago (snows there,
right?)?

Thanks much in advance and apologies to the rest,

If you look at the clouds and it looks like it will rain, but the
temperatures are below 32° F, it will most likely snow...

Rain clouds almost always are darker (denser) if rain is likely.
Snow doesn't produce the same effect. I'd guess that snow reflects
light, while water absorbs it, but I don't really know if that is
what is happening.

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

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!

Any Canadians here who can help? Or anyone near Chicago (snows there,
right?)?

I'm from California but wouldn't the cloud be full of snow if its
getting ready to snow? Can you see the snow in the cloud?

-Robert

On 14 Nov 2006 08:35:16 -0800, "Robert M. Gary" wrote in
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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!

Any Canadians here who can help? Or anyone near Chicago (snows there,
right?)?

I'm from California but wouldn't the cloud be full of snow if its
getting ready to snow? Can you see the snow in the cloud?

I'm from Buffalo, and I have seen a fair amount of
snow both here and in Syracuse (which receives about
four or five more feet of snow than Buffalo does,
on average).

I can't see the snow in the cloud myself before it
falls. I haven't heard of any reliable method of
predicting which cloud will drop snow and which
won't.

I have recognized rainfall at a distance of a
couple of miles under the right conditions (across
a lake or in an open field in flat terrain). I've
never seen snow falling at that distance, though
perhaps that's because I don't spend enough time
outdoors in the winter.

Marty
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I have recognized rainfall at a distance of a
couple of miles under the right conditions (across
a lake or in an open field in flat terrain). I've
never seen snow falling at that distance, though
perhaps that's because I don't spend enough time
outdoors in the winter.

Flying in the winter in the Midwest I've seen snow squalls from quite a
ways off. They're quite similar to summertime thunderstorms, in that
they are isolated enough so that you can easily fly around them.

But I don't think you can tell a snow cloud by looking at it. Although
winter clouds DO look different than summer clouds, not all of them
produce snow.
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Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

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.)

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

On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:58:04 -0900, (Floyd L.
Davidson) wrote:

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.)

Is the answer, "When the clouds are above an igloo?"

Don