BarredRockMomma (I'm still here)

[marlowmanor]

The weather guys is calling for snow next week. That means that it will warm up a bit. It is too cold to snow right now.

That just confused me. It can be too cold to snow? I knew it could be too warm to snow, but never too cold.

 

[BarredRockMomma]

I'm not sure on the sicence of it but I do know that at extremly cold temps that it won't snow. I will see if I can find a link about it. Intresting fact Antartica is a desert.

 

[BarredRockMomma]

December 26 -
You have probably heard the saying, "it's too cold to snow", but is there any truth to the statement? Actually, it's not true but, as temperatures fall, so does the amount of moisture that the air can hold. So, typically, cold air has much less moisture in it than warm air. But, it doesn't become too cold to snow.

At very cold temperatures snow tends to be much lighter and contains less water. For instance, at 32 degrees 10 inches of snow generally equals around 1 inch of liquid water equivalent. At extremely cold temperatures it may take 50 inches of snow to equal 1 inch of water. The south polar cap is extremely cold and it snows there. The polar caps may only receive 10 to 20 inches of snow a year...it just never melts.

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/fsd/?n=suxtrivia12 it is on December 26th

So I guess it doesn't get to cold to snow.

ETA http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/education/svrwx101/winter/faq/ Just more info on too cold to snow. Now Marlow has awakened the student in me and I am looking for all the answers that I can find to this question. I guess I never mentioned that I love to research.

 

[jodief100]

Cloud cover holds in heat. Clear skies produce colder days than cloudy ones. So when a region is "as cold as it gets", it won't snow becasue the sky is clear.

The temperature at which it is "too cold to snow" will vary depending on local weather patterns. The temperature at which it is" too cold to snow" in Indiana will be higher than how cold "too cold to snow" is in Minnesota.

 

[BarredRockMomma]

and then you have the Salt Lake Valley. Right now we are in a tempture inverstion, Basically we are under a high pressure that is trapping all the air in the valley. It traps all the cold air in the valley along with all the gunk. It is weird usually it is warmer in the Valley than the Moutains but today it will be 25 and smoggy in Salt Lake and in Park City it will be 27 and sunny. So part of the reason it won't snow right now is that there is little to know activity in the atmosphere.

(ingore the misspellings. I was up until 2am reading. So the brain is a little groggy and the eyes don't like the screen)

 

[marlowmanor]

Well I learnt something new. I always just figured if it was below 32F then any precipitation had the chance to be snow. Though we did have some snow flurries here when the weather was 40F. Didn't stick or anything but it snowed.

We rarely get snow here so I don't know all the science behind it.

Nice to know the science behind it now though.

 

[BarredRockMomma]

OK well work has been slow this week so I have managed to read the whole Fifty Shades trioligy and get the website updated with more pictures http://celtichills.weebly.com/. I am woking on adding a blog entry for this week, I just need to figure out what I want to say in it. Feel free to check it out and reply with editing help. There are times that I go to fast and don't read clearly what I am typing. I also need to get some sleep. One of these days I will learn not to take books to bed with me. That is the #1 way that I loose sleep.

The other project for the day convinceing both of my parents that all of us going to the hockey game on Saturday is a good thing. That we need some family time with out books or tv. We will see how that goes.

On the goat front I think that Bea has settled, there have been no signs of heat and she is becomeing more aggressive towards the other goats. I will have to check the calender at home for the due date range but I know that the early one is March 26th. More babies. I will do my best to keep you all posted on the kidding progress and everything else going on in life.

 

[BarredRockMomma]

I have a goat that is not doing well. I have posted it here http://www.backyardherds.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=299435#p299435 if you would please take a look and let me know what to do. Also prayer and postive thoughts. This is my Capone and I can't loose him.

 

[BarredRockMomma]

taking goat to the vet please pray for both of us

 

[BarredRockMomma]

Here is the run down of the last 24 hours for me.

OK now for the wrap up. My one year old wether was off feed shaking and not peeing. After posting here I decided to drench with a water and lemon juice mix. I did not have any of the fruit fresh so I used what I had on hand. After a bit I decided that I needed the in person help of someone with more experiance so I called the vet. I got the goat into the van and he enjoyed looking out the windows on the way there. The vet listened to lungs, heart and tummy and took his temp and every thing was normal. He said that we needed to separate him so that we could monitor is intake and output. The vet sepected that he was shivering and dehydradated. We got the goat home and set up in the garage. Baby gates do not hold goats very well. I spent time out there with him getting him settled down. When I checked on him at 10:00 he had made a bug puddle. Never thought I would be happy to see goat pee in the garage but I was. After talking to the vet this morning he said that he can go back with the herd. Also to keep an eye on him and make sure he gets water. I am so glad that it was nothing worse than what it is and that at this point my baby boy will be all right. We just have to get through this cold spell.