Nuke effect snow

spideog7

We're getting hit with some particularly cold weather here in Western, PA at the moment, (I think -18C was the low last night). But there was an interesting side effect yesterday evening that I thought you folks might be interested in.

One of my co-workers mentioned a particularly horrendous commute as I79, one of the Interstates north of here, had a mile long stretch of heavy snow despite almost everywhere else being dry. As it turns out it was a very localised snow storm produced by the steam from the local nuclear power plant.

Iancar29

Jealous!!

Yeah saw it yesterday while i was looking at the general lows , -30 C in places !!! :O

Thats some drift though , all down to the lake land temp difference and the wind paralleling the lake . Some 2 inch per hour rates i saw on the radar last night , crazy stuff indeed!

maquiladora

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Spindle

Shhhh, don't tell the snow starved snow bunnies as the next time we have cold uppers, low dew points but no precip, there will be a lot of boiling kettles outside.

nilhg

Edenderry Power burns 1,000,000 tonnes of 60% moisture peat every year, all we need now is -18C winds from the North West:D.

bb1234567

We so need one of those thingmajiggers!:)