[Milsurplus] Utterly OT: Weird Snow

[jcoward5452 at aol.com]

I experienced a form of weird snow in Denver CO back in '77 when I started tech school.I was walking through downtown Denver heading for the bus station to head home to Boulder when it began to snow. The weird part was that the snow was bouncing on the ground. My theory is that the snow had been drawn back up and accumulted build up and formed into tiny snowballs in a similar way that hail is formed.
 Next day I was told it is called "popcorn snow". Never saw it again.
 Jay
 PS Back in the '50's my Dad forbade us from eating any snow due to radioactive fallout contamination.






-----Original Message-----
From: David Stinson <arc5 at ix.netcom.com>
To: milsurplus <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sat, Feb 5, 2011 7:49 am
Subject: [Milsurplus] Utterly OT: Weird Snow


I'm submitting this here because it's a place I can find
eople smarter than me whom I respect.
 An unusually heavy snow of about 6 inches fell in northeast Texas, 
ast of Dallas, on the night of Feb. 3rd.  
hile cleaning snow off my work truck,
http://home.netcom.com/~arc5/snow/truck.jpg
I noticed a layer of snow with a pink/orange tinge.  
now fell for about an inch, 
han the orange layer of about a quarter inch, then the rest above 
ooked normal.  I've seen snow contaminated by atmospheric dust 
efore- this looks very different.  
ere's a photo with the color saturation enhanced 
o you can see the weird stuff:
http://home.netcom.com/~arc5/snow/Contaminant.jpg
The layer is general over all the snow around here.
Any ideas?
egards,
avid S.
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