We had a rare treat of getting some snow fall here in the southeast United States tonight. I've only seen snow a few times so this was an opportunity I couldn't pass up. I had to go outside and just be in the snow. I geared up with a bunch of layers and headed out. I was amazed at how eery it felt to me at first being engulfed in a flurry of white specs all around. The snowflakes seemed huge to me, as I watched them whip around in my ultra bright flood lights i had switched on to be able to witness this rare site.
I had a quiet thought creep into the back of my mind.
The snow didn't feel "real" to me. I had one of those old tin hat moments, and thought to myself, "I wonder if this is weather manipulated snow?"
I brushed it off, but it crept back in as I caught a few of these snowflakes on my tongue; A few even hit me in the eyes. But, I went back to enjoying this experience both visually,
and even audibly. Snow makes the most peaceful sound the way it falls. This was something i wont soon forget.
Ibgo back inside so i dont die from pneumonia, sitting back watching some youtube, and I run across this video of people who are having this rare snow in the south.
They are burning the snow and it's not melting. It's burning.
Skip to the 2 min mark and you'll find what im talking about.
I got my tin foil hat on and walked back outside and collected some snow and put a lighter to it...
It burned like a foam. Never really catching fire. Just a very very slow burn that did turn brown.
Almost like when you burn Styrofoam, but much much slower. .
It never melted, rogue-nation! No water at all came from this experiment. The results of my test were exactly like the second example in the video.
I'm just going to see what you all have to say about it.
If you're in this snow storm, gather some snow and take a lighter to it, and watch.
First the mystery fog.
Now it's burning snow.
I see that this is an old topic, but was wondering what my fellow rogues thought of this.
This is what I got from a quick search.
When you burn snow with a lighter, it does not melt in the traditional sense but rather undergoes a process called sublimation, where it transitions directly from a solid to a gas. The flame from a lighter is not intense enough to melt the snow into liquid water. Instead, the heat causes the snow to vaporize without passing through the liquid phase. Additionally, the soot from the lighter can accumulate on the snow’s surface, turning it black and giving the appearance that the snow is melting and burning. This black residue is not a result of the snow itself burning but rather the accumulation of unburnt fuel particles from the lighter.
Is this actually a thing?
So weird.
I just ran the same experiment with an ice cube from my refrigerator.
Similar results.
"Sublimation"
This ol Florida boy learned something about snow. Lol
Cheers
I had a quiet thought creep into the back of my mind.
The snow didn't feel "real" to me. I had one of those old tin hat moments, and thought to myself, "I wonder if this is weather manipulated snow?"
I brushed it off, but it crept back in as I caught a few of these snowflakes on my tongue; A few even hit me in the eyes. But, I went back to enjoying this experience both visually,
and even audibly. Snow makes the most peaceful sound the way it falls. This was something i wont soon forget.
Ibgo back inside so i dont die from pneumonia, sitting back watching some youtube, and I run across this video of people who are having this rare snow in the south.
They are burning the snow and it's not melting. It's burning.
Skip to the 2 min mark and you'll find what im talking about.
I got my tin foil hat on and walked back outside and collected some snow and put a lighter to it...
It burned like a foam. Never really catching fire. Just a very very slow burn that did turn brown.
Almost like when you burn Styrofoam, but much much slower. .
It never melted, rogue-nation! No water at all came from this experiment. The results of my test were exactly like the second example in the video.
I'm just going to see what you all have to say about it.
If you're in this snow storm, gather some snow and take a lighter to it, and watch.
First the mystery fog.
Now it's burning snow.
I see that this is an old topic, but was wondering what my fellow rogues thought of this.
This is what I got from a quick search.
When you burn snow with a lighter, it does not melt in the traditional sense but rather undergoes a process called sublimation, where it transitions directly from a solid to a gas. The flame from a lighter is not intense enough to melt the snow into liquid water. Instead, the heat causes the snow to vaporize without passing through the liquid phase. Additionally, the soot from the lighter can accumulate on the snow’s surface, turning it black and giving the appearance that the snow is melting and burning. This black residue is not a result of the snow itself burning but rather the accumulation of unburnt fuel particles from the lighter.
Is this actually a thing?
So weird.
I just ran the same experiment with an ice cube from my refrigerator.
Similar results.
"Sublimation"
This ol Florida boy learned something about snow. Lol
Cheers
They live.
We sleep.
We sleep.