Awakening this morning we discovered a winter wonderland. Snow, 8"? 10"? 12"? Who knows...it's March so it won't last long. Kaia loves it running full tilt in snow up to her belly she never seems to tire. It's all very pretty but now the sun can come out and take it away. Beware of the ides of March, indeed.
Shoveling my sidewalk I discovered that the snow was already melting from the bottom. Using Google I discovered...
"Does snow melt from the top or bottom?
The simple answer is that snow can melt BOTH from top to bottom and from the bottom to the top… depending on the conditions. During the day, the snow reflects a majority of the sunlight but some of the sun's energy evaporates the solid snow directly to the vapor phase."
Some of the rays of the sun penetrate the snow and when they strike something dark beneath the snow they heat that surface. As that surface heats the snow melts from the bottom.
Maybe I should just go make a snowman! 😀
Takk for alt,
Al
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