Let It Snow [UPDATED]
After the train is stopped by snowed-over tracks, Julie gets off to walk home, Stuart joins her and offers lunch at a local diner called Waffle Town. She reluctantly agrees and later has to save him from a group of fangirl cheerleaders. Julie reveals to Stuart she got accepted to Columbia and her mom is also deathly sick, but if she delays leaving, she will lose the scholarship.
Let It Snow
Cloud Seeding for Snow How much snow does cloud-seeding produce? Soon scientists will be closer to knowing the answer. NSF-supported researchers have begun a cloud-seeding experiment in southwestern Idaho. Dubbed SNOWIE (Seeded and Natural Orographic Wintertime Clouds -- the Idaho Experiment), the project is taking place in and near the Payette Basin, 50 miles north of Boise, Idaho.
A Conifer's View of Snow If trees could talk, what winter tales they might tell: of the frozen soil in which they're rooted, the snows that fall on their branches, the icy rivers and streams that flow beneath, and the health of the entire forest.
Where Have Our Winters Gone? If you're planning to skate on a frozen lake or river this winter, ski on a snowy slope, or, when spring arrives, depend on snowmelt to refill your water supply, you may need to think twice. December-to-March may be less like the winters we remember.
The Tale of the Spruce vs. the Hare It's a new story of the race between the tortoise and the hare. Now it's a dead heat between a white spruce tree and a snowshoe hare. Which will win? Scientists at the National Science Foundation Bonanza Creek Long-Term Ecological Research site in Alaska are chasing down answers.
At the Regional Test Center in Williston, Vermont, researchers are examining how framed (in the background) and frameless (in the foreground) solar photovoltaic modules handle snowy conditions. Photo Courtesy: Sandia National Laboratories
A dusting of snow has little impact on solar panels because the wind can easily blow it off. Light is able to forward scatter through a sparse coating, reaching the panel to produce electricity. It's a different story when heavy snow accumulates, which prevents PV panels from generating power. Once the snow starts to slide, though, even if it only slightly exposes the panel, power generation is able to occur again.
This winter, even if the snow piles high, we can remain confident that our solar panels will generate power and that research conducted at the Regional Test Centers will help PV perform even better in the future.
Where to find us:The snow and Imagination Place are located inside the Mary G. Hardin Center for Cultural Arts on the corner of 5th and Broad in downtown Gadsden. Our entrance is from the rear parking lot off of 5th Street. Our address is: 501 Broad StreetGadsden, AL 35901
Our snowy backyard bash is just around the bend! You know what that means: The Hammock will be decorated and in Full Festive Mode, bringing together you, your family and all the Crooked traditions that we've cooked up over the years to kick off the holidays.
Regardless of what the weatherperson says, we're guaranteeing snow out back. There's no better way to enjoy a pint of Jingle Berry, Lift Ticket Golden Stout (or whatever your favorite Hammock beer is), while the kids frolic in the snow or put together their gingerbread house. Space, both at the table and on Santa's lap, is limited so don't sleep on getting tix.
A holiday music show celebrating the winter season. Artistic impressions of various popular winter holiday music come to life on the dome transporting the entire family to a magical wonderland of music and light. Bells and reindeer, presents and cookies, snow and nutcrackers in colorful spectacles of fun.
The pack is made up of a number of tools. Snow shells for covering terrains, mountains, figures and other props. And a snow flake array with partical simulation for adding falling snow to the scene. Here is some more detailed info about the different tools.
The DA Snow Flake Array adds snow flakes to any scene using morphs to drive particle simulation. Made up of hundreds of Snow flakes created with 3 intersecting planes. There are ten varieties of snow flakes including 5 Realistic, 4 Stylized and 3 star shapes. Add as many arrays or instances with different morph settings to fill a scene or add a light sprinkle of snow. It's possible to animate snowfalls driven by the included morphs.
The DA Snow Cap Shell easily adds a snow cap to any mountain or hill props. Simply add the shell to your existing prop and add a shader. The Snow cap shell includes some Snow level morph to completely cover a mountain or just add a small snow covered peak. Some props will need to be converted to Sub D to give smoother looking snow if they have low geometry counts.
The DA Snow Shell is designed to add a Snow shell around any terrain, prop of any mesh. Included are 6 Adjustment presets to adjust the shell to give a full covering or just a top layer of snow to the target item. You can even add multiple shells to add, for example, both a light top layer of snow and frost to an item or any combination you like.
Each shell when loaded inherits the shape and Material surfaces from the target item. Using the material surfaces you can add different shader presets to different parts of your item or hide them completely to leave them free of snow.
Also included are a stack of Material Presets for the Snow Array and a set of Snow Shader Presets for use with the shells. Plus a fee mountain prop with a pre-configured Snow Cap Shell and a bunch of other preset snowflake scenes so you can quickly add Snow flakes to your scene.
While the possibilities are many, the set is remarkably quick and easy to get some great snow effects into a scene with a lot of flexibility to the final result. And best of all is compatible with pretty much any item in your library.
It was created by Google in 2011 as a festive feature for the Christmas and holiday season. However, it is no longer available on the Google homepage. You can still experience it on -it-snow/ that have recreated it. Google "Let It Snow" is one of many fun and creative Easter eggs that Google has created over the years.
Winters in Windham are never easy. There are below-zero temperatures, icy roads and walkways, frigid winds and, of course, snow. Lots and lots of snow. And over the course of the last two centuries, there have been some lollapalooza storms that blasted their way to our town.
Another notable winter storm came in 1978. The Blizzard of 1978 ran its course Feb. 6-7, right on the heels of a January blizzard that dropped up to 21 inches of snow over Maine. Taking place during a new moon, there were unusually high tides all along the East Coast. The snow developed in the afternoon and piled up rapidly, leaving many people stranded between work or school and home. Winds gusted to 100 mph and the snow accumulated to over 40 inches in the hardest-hit areas.
It knocked out power for 10 million people and shut down every airport on the East Coast. Windham residents found themselves digging out of up to 2 feet of snow, but the snow was not the worst of it. With winds of up to 100 mph hour, this whirling dervish of a storm was like watching a white hurricane raging its way across the countryside.
In the headwaters state of Colorado, snowpack is king. Colorado State University snow hydrologist Steven Fassnacht recently traveled to one of the most advanced snow laboratories in the world to study this important resource and how snow influences water management and climate forecasting.
Fassnacht, a professor of ecosystem science and sustainability in the Warner College of Natural Resources, traveled to Japan on a fellowship sponsored by the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science. He spent a month conducting research with the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) in Yokohama and one week at a unique snow-simulating facility at the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention in Shinjo. 041b061a72