Archives for: "March 2014"
Equinox frost I: Patterns on roof, hood, window, and mirror
March 24th, 2014Morning on the spring equinox, the first day of spring, brought a few gifts from winter. I) Film-frost, accentuated with hoar-frost on the cars. See the white of the hoar, following a pattern set down by the thin layer of film-frost. The roof of one… more »
Video of growing ice spike
March 6th, 2014Take about a cup of water, place in a glass flask, then plunge in liquid nitrogen. Watch. What happens in that video is that the water starts to freeze from the bottom and sides of the flask, and the ice also spreads across the top surface. When the… more »
The end of snow
March 1st, 2014This recent front-page article caught my eye: The writer is an avid skier-snowboarder, and thus concerned about the future of his sport. The facts he relates paints a grim picture: - In the past 47 years, a million square miles of spring snowcover has… more »
