• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

Winter Pictures

Why do you have to use boiling water to throw into the air at -20? Why can't it be cold water? Just curious if there is some scientific answer.

Mike
 
Here's a few from Quebec!





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Bill Doms said:
-20.7°F this morning so had to get one of the winter Minnesooota traditions out of the way. If you have never seen it, this is what about 2 cups of boiling water does when it hits the air. Not quite the same as the corny Twister quote "And he chucks the bottle into the twister, and it never hits the ground.", but this never comes down either.
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Bill, I like how you built your own audience of three [snowmen]... lol
 
I got this frost flower a few weeks ago:
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and from December 15 - Mount Magazine Ice Storm. We have had several inches of rain so far this winter with the temperature just above freezing and several continually melting snow events (snow at 34degs). Every time its like that here and in most places in Western Arkansas...well Mount Magazine gets it. It has had over 10 inches of snow and probably a total of 2 inches of freezing rain with most of that being the December 15th ice storm.
 
Starting to get some freaky pictures on here, lol. Damn it Aaron, now I want to get a macro lens. Looks like a microscope took those.

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You know it is cold when a river full of ice is steaming.
 
Mike: higher the temperature, higher the evaporation rate for the water. You're near the vaporization point of water sowhen you throw the water, it breaks into many small droplets that can freeze quickly.

EDIT: Jees that picture looks like an alternate world. sweet!
 
While this picture doesn't take on the eery qualities of some of them, I'll cheat by giving you a picture from the high country above 10K.

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And then there's this one. It's one of my favorite Photoshop'd pictures from a ski trip last year. If you could see the original picture showing me getting like 6" of air you'd laugh as hard as I do everytime I see it.

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LOL Tim, nice work. I was like, that looks odd.

I took about 305 winter photos this morning on a very fun, cold outing. It made it down to about -20F and the icy river steam was going in full force when I got there, around 6 a.m.

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This was later when much of the steam let up. It was rather thick for the first couple hours after sunrise.

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Just as the sundogs/halo lets up, a couple steamnadoes on roids formed near me.

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It was very neat to say the least. Thick steam in VERY frigid air, ice-crystals creating a strong halo/sundog display, big steamnadoes...and all the while you can hear the bald eagles doing their calls in the trees. I'll post a link whenever I put them all online.
 
Yeah, individual crystals. I'm not sure I've ever seen sun dogs in this fashion. Seems I've only seem them way off on the horizon at sunset. In about a 1/2 mile drive you'd drive right out of the crystal band and they'd be gone(obviously).
 
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