our picoclimate, illustrated

[solarbird]

Okay, so occasionally I've gone on about the little one-block-long ministreet we live on that we really only share with one other house, and the even smaller picoclimate we seem to have on it; how we have snow when nobody else does, how you can walk up to the hill to our street and it's dry, and then you turn left to head up to our house and suddenly you're in WINTER WONDERLAND. But I've never really seen anything that made me think, "oh! I can shoot this!" mostly because there aren't usually any really good angles, until this morning, snowfall started. Check out our street and the intersection:


I'm Misses Snow-Miser; I'm Misses Ten Below

(You might also note all the snow on our yard (and our neighbour's yard) and the lack thereof down on the opposite side of the street. But that's not as obvious as the road.)

Comments

[kvogel.livejournal.com]

Got snow here too, but more general area coverage.

[solarbird]

I thought by now we'd have snow on both roads, but nope! It's actually more of contrast now, not less. @whee ^_^

WHERE IS ALL OUR RAIN? This winter is confusing me.

[westrider.livejournal.com]

We get stuff like that out here on Bainbridge as well. You're going around and everything's normal, and then there's this 100' belt of crazy snow, and then it's all back to normal.

And seriously, where the hell is the rain? I want my rain.

[llachglin.livejournal.com]

I liked the fog last week. Bring back the fog.

[solarbird]

The fog was cool but the air inversion with pollution entrapment was pretty brutal on elfish throats, so let's not have that part back.

[ypawtows.livejournal.com]

I had noticed that the fog made my windshield dirty.
Mmm.. a taste of London.

[solarbird]

Eh, more like taste of IF I WANTED TO LIVE IN TACOMA I'D HAVE BOUGHT A HOUSE THERE than London.

[sarakate.livejournal.com]

Private snow, just for you! That's marvelous.

There was an area, about a block wide and maybe half a mile long, near my neighborhood growing up that would get snow when nobody else around us did. In that case, it was a power plant several miles away that was upwind of them with the generally prevailing winds, and on cold dry mornings, the steam released from the power plant would turn into snow, and they just happened to be right about where the snow would generally land. Sometimes the wind would be coming from a different direction and the snow would go elsewhere, but they got it an awful lot of the time.

[solarbird]

okay that's kind of awesome. hee ^_^

[denelian.livejournal.com]

this is totally fascinating.

i grew up in northern California (Redding, if that helps) and it was always very weird, we'd drive out of town and see a LINE between snow/not snow. an honest-to-gods DEMARCATION between areas - crossing the line the temp dropped too.

one of the few things i really dislike about ohio - i still (still! after more than a decade here) think of snow as a thing you drive to. and every winter it chases me down anyway...

[chipmunck.livejournal.com]

How wonderfully odd. Oddly wonderful?