I hope all of you in the northeast are doing well with this recent ice storm. I see quite a bit of damage to trees from ice. There is loss of power to 1.25 million homes and businesses in the Northeast. We are right at the very western edge of it here in Jefferson county PA and caught very little of it. Frosty the Snowman is on television, but my mind keeps running through sublimination processes and O18 fractionation in snow falls. Oh well. it looks like we will be having a white Christmas here this year.
----- Original Message ----- From: Edward Frank To: ENTS Google Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 8:32 PM
Subject: [ENTS] Wintery Weather
ENTS,
I hope all of you in the northeast are doing well with this recent ice storm. I see quite a bit of damage to trees from ice. There is loss of power to 1.25 million homes and businesses in the Northeast. We are right at the very western edge of it here in Jefferson county PA and caught very little of it. Frosty the Snowman is on television, but my mind keeps running through sublimination processes and O18 fractionation in snow falls. Oh well. it looks like we will be having a white Christmas here this year.
----- Original Message ----- From: Edward Frank To: ENTS Google Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 8:32 PM
Subject: [ENTS] Wintery Weather
ENTS,
I hope all of you in the northeast are doing well with this recent ice storm. I see quite a bit of damage to trees from ice. There is loss of power to 1.25 million homes and businesses in the Northeast. We are right at the very western edge of it here in Jefferson county PA and caught very little of it. Frosty the Snowman is on television, but my mind keeps running through sublimination processes and O18 fractionation in snow falls. Oh well. it looks like we will be having a white Christmas here this year.
My posts are caught between a rock and a hard place. If I don't use spell check my posts are full of spelling errors. If I do use it and am not careful, the spell check replaces misspelled words I want with other words completely. Sublimation is the process where solids change directly to a gas without melting. Ice can evaporate without melting. Poor Frosty will evaporate at the north pole.
----- Original Message ----- From: DON BERTOLETTE To: entstrees@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2008 1:38 AM
Subject: [ENTS] Re: Wintery Weather
----- Original Message ----- From: Edward Frank To: ENTS Google Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 8:32 PM
Subject: [ENTS] Wintery Weather
ENTS,
I hope all of you in the northeast are doing well with this recent ice storm. I see quite a bit of damage to trees from ice. There is loss of power to 1.25 million homes and businesses in the Northeast. We are right at the very western edge of it here in Jefferson county PA and caught very little of it. Frosty the Snowman is on television, but my mind keeps running through sublimination processes and O18 fractionation in snow falls. Oh well. it looks like we will be having a white Christmas here this year.
Winter has started here too. Although it was only -7 in Minneapolis yesterday morning, it reached -30 F in my boreal forest study areas in northern MN. Ice is already a foot thick on most lakes in MN. Last Sunday I went to Duluth for the Minnesota Moose Summit (the purpose was to gather experts and figure out why moose are disappearing from MN), and winter had just started in Duluth. The 1000 foot hill at the entrance to the city on I-35 was like a giant slide in heavy falling snow--like one of those kiddie bumper car arenas, except these were real cars. The most important thing is to stop at the bottom before plunging into Lake Superior.
A major snowstorm is on its way Sunday, and the police are anticipating closing I-90 and I-94 during the storm, since a blizzard warming has been issued and winds will gust to 50 mph or more, with temperatures well below zero. Minneapolis will be at the southern edge of the storm and we might get freezing rain before the arctic air pours in Sunday evening. Snowstorm forecasts are not very accurate and we won't know what is going to happen until it happens. Monday might be the first day so far this winter with daytime high temperatures below zero--I will have to get out my medium weight winter coat.
>I hope all of you in the northeast are doing well with this recent ice >storm. I see quite a bit of damage to trees from ice. There is loss of >power to 1.25 million homes and businesses in the Northeast. We are right >at the very western edge of it here in Jefferson county PA and caught very >little of it. Frosty the Snowman is on television, but my mind keeps >running through sublimination processes and O18 fractionation in snow >falls. Oh well. it looks like we will be having a white Christmas here >this year.
Ed-
Sublimation happens in cold climates in a wondrously beautiful way...explains the sparkles suspended in the air on bright Colorado winter mornings...gaseous vapors skipping a state and going directly to ice crystals.
I wasn't so much pointing out a misspelling (can be one or two s's), as considering if your mispelling was subliminal, which are thought processes occuring just below conscious thought levels. Much like efforts a couple of decades ago, where it was thought that interspersing images of popcorn every fifth frame in a 24 frames per second film would make theater goers hungry for popcorn.
I am one who thinks words are wonderful!
-Don
My posts are caught between a rock and a hard place. If I don't use spell check my posts are full of spelling errors. If I do use it and am not careful, the spell check replaces misspelled words I want with other words completely. Sublimation is the process where solids change directly to a gas without melting. Ice can evaporate without melting. Poor Frosty will evaporate at the north pole.
----- Original Message ----- From: DON BERTOLETTE To: entstrees@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2008 1:38 AM
Subject: [ENTS] Re: Wintery Weather
----- Original Message ----- From: Edward Frank To: ENTS Google Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 8:32 PM
Subject: [ENTS] Wintery Weather
ENTS,
I hope all of you in the northeast are doing well with this recent ice storm. I see quite a bit of damage to trees from ice. There is loss of power to 1.25 million homes and businesses in the Northeast. We are right at the very western edge of it here in Jefferson county PA and caught very little of it. Frosty the Snowman is on television, but my mind keeps running through sublimination processes and O18 fractionation in snow falls. Oh well. it looks like we will be having a white Christmas here this year.
