davidd's A DOLL A DAY 2023

[davidd]

...then again, I'd never be dressed like that .....  

I'm still confused by your patchy snow.  How is there none at all in the background and then your slope is covered...?

You're a pirate, ain't'cha? I bet you swing around up in the rigging in an outfit that would make Tarzan blush!

Snow "at altitude" (6900 ft / 2100 m) is interesting. Annoying sometimes, but interesting. Even when the air temperature is chilly, or below freezing, the sun at this altitude is intense... once it manages to break through the overcast. Snow facing the sun (southern eksposure) tends to simultaneously melt and sublimate (directly evaporate without turning to liquid first), so snow on sunny slopes disappears much more quickly than snow on northern-facing slopes or in the shade. As you can see in some of the pictures, hillsides facing the sun might be completely dry while opposite slopes, even if not particularly steep, still have fairly deep blankets of snow. Snow banks in shaded spots can linger for days or weeks after everything else has melted off.

The trick to clearing decks, porches, driveways, and sidewalks is to get the snow scraped away in at least a few areas to bare ground. The bare ground (or deck planking) absorbs heat from the sun and the snow melts away from the edges of the uncovered areas fairly quickly.

Not all the snow sublimates. There's plenty of marshy, mushy melting going on. The melt-water re-freezes at night, forming a treacherous layer of ice under the snow. On warmer days, the driveway becomes a stream of flowing water.

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9 April - A Doll A Day 2023:

Replacing a Washing Machine Inlet Valve

Because Winter breaks Everything
As Well as Crushing the Soul