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Power plant-effect snow

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posted on Feb, 1 2010 @ 06:00 PM
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This is very intresting! Quite a large area covered in heavy snow triggered by warm, moist air comming from the power plant.



Chasers Dave Demko and Nathan Bain intercepted an intense band of powerplant-effect snow near Lake Overholser west of Oklahoma City on January 31!




The power plant is located at 35.470422, -97.675066
It was easy to pinpoint using their radar data in the video above, and it looks like it is definitely being triggered by the plant.


The only 2 other example of this I could find:

1) A post here about snow over a river warmed by a power plant
www.johndee.com...


2) Found from the link above
Man-Made Snow in Green Bay - January 15, 1999
www.crh.noaa.gov...



posted on Feb, 2 2010 @ 11:20 AM
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Just found an intresting PDF on the subject.




Industrial snow is basically a nocturnal phenomenon. Fall out occurs most frequently in the hours before and around sunrise (Figure 2) after low stratus/fog has formed during the night. If low winter stratus does
not dissipate during the day industrial snow may already fall a few hours after sunset (Figure 3).

Snow depth is typically 1 to 2 mm and not evenly distributed in the affected area. In Winterthur a local snow depth of 20 mm has been observed. As extreme values local snow depths of 50, 100, and 150 mm
have been reported for the motorway near Kriegstetten on a distance of about 1000 m requiring mechanical removal of the snow.

www.iac.ethz.ch...

At first I thought this to be cool, but it seems quite scarry after reading the PDF. What is meant to go into our atmosphere, is falling to the ground as possibly, toxic snow, on your house.


[edit on 2/2/10 by Cyprex]



 
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