[Milsurplus] Utterly OT: Weird Snow

[Peter Gottlieb]

Looks like the layer of crud I fly through from 3-5000 feet MSL.


On 2/5/2011 10:49 AM, David Stinson wrote:
> I'm submitting this here because it's a place I can find
> people smarter than me whom I respect.
>
>   An unusually heavy snow of about 6 inches fell in northeast Texas,
> east of Dallas, on the night of Feb. 3rd.
> While 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.
> Snow fell for about an inch,
> than the orange layer of about a quarter inch, then the rest above
> looked normal.  I've seen snow contaminated by atmospheric dust
> before- this looks very different.
> Here's a photo with the color saturation enhanced
> so 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?
> Regards,
> David S.
>
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