Winter Pictures

[Aaron Kennedy]

Few of frost this morning:

http://people.aero.und.edu/~kennedya/FROST-012008/index.htm

Needless to say, I am ABSOLUTELY loving the new macro lens. Thought focusing might be more difficult, but it seems to be not too shabby. Hardest part is keeping perpendicular to the plane.

 

[Mike Ridgeway]

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

 

[Gaetan Cormier]

Here's a few from Quebec!

 

[Robert Dewey]

-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.

Bill, I like how you built your own audience of three [snowmen]... lol

 

[Brian Emfinger]

I got this frost flower a few weeks ago:

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.

 

[Mike Hollingshead]

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.

You know it is cold when a river full of ice is steaming.

 

[Aaron Kennedy]

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!

 

[Tim Stoecklein]

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.

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.

 

[Bart_Comstock]

 

[Jason Foster]

This is from 2005 Chaser Convention trip. The Weathervine crew went to Loveland Pass well west of Denver. There's tons more winter mountain photos on my 2005 Convention summary page

http://www.weatherwarrior.net/nscc/nscc05.html

 

[Brian Emfinger]

from today:

a few more here: http://www.realclearwx.com/random0708.htm

 

[Mike Hollingshead]

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.

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

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

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.

 

[Aaron Kennedy]

Nice pix. What are the white dots in the sun dog shots? Individual crystals?

 

[Mike Hollingshead]

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).

 

[Mike Hollingshead]

http://www.extremeinstability.com/08-1-24.htm

Put the rest up there.