Tuesday, January 26, 2010
A Flagpole Falls in Connecticut
The weather was so stormy yesterday that my neighbor's flagpole snapped near its base and fell into his trees, almost on his car. All's well now, but it was quite a storm. If it had been cold--and not 50F!!--it would've been a great blizzard, with 60 mph gusts and 8" inches or so of snow (calculating 4" snow per 1" rain, though I'm not sure where I got that. Wow. Just checked Wiki and it says it's 10:1!)
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It depends on the type of snow...really...UK snow is about ten inches equivalent to one inch rain, except that now we are Metric we have 10 mm of snow or 1 mm rain, wind speed is still good old mph. Some N. American snow has been whizzed up and down the atmosphere for a while and tends to be spherical and thus more dense and easier for me to ski upon.
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