Volcano eruptions = more SNOW???

[APEX 21]

Mexico city has a volcano erupting. I dont know if I'm wacked or not, but it seems like we have more snow when one erupts. That certainly would not hurt my feelings. LET IT SNOW, summer sucks

 

[Auskins]

doesn't eruptions pump more CO2 in the air which cause WARMER conditions? (not to mention some lives)
but when global warming gets in full effect some ppl say that with the extra water from the arctic melting and flowing down that the labrador current will block the gulf stream from coming this far north which WILL make most of canada colder

 

[APEX 21]

I thought it pushed more ash in the air as well. I thought there was some eruptions last year. The last season in wisconsin and UP was pretty good. Not the best but good. We really have'nt had a hard hitting winter since 97 (snow was up to my shoulders, at the end of april) I'm 6'06

 

[monker]

Yes, the eruptions can be contributed to more snowfall. There's more that goes into it than that though. Snow can't form without some type of dirt/dust/ash/particle to form around. There is a little peice of something in every snowflake. You also have to have the jet stream or higher wind currents bring the materials over your area at the right time. So overall it can help, but there are a lot more factors that contribute as well.

 

[BigGuns]

Yamascience.com

 

[NB-NYTRO]

I have heard that the weather patterns we are seeing now have not been seen in 15 years. I was on this site with a bunch of Meterologist. They are all saying a big and cold snowy filled winter in lieu of the Extreme heat we are having this summer. They weather is supposed to get more extreme as global warming takes a further toll on our climate. Get your machines ready early.

 

[Auskins]

and all this time i though global warming was a bad thing...

 

[yamahey]

Global warming isn't good or bad, it is pure fiction...

 

[RTX Meirda]

I hear that because of the hot summer, the lakes are really warm.

Because of this, the lakes will take longer to freeze. If the lakes are open, the wind can pick up the moisture and blizzards for everyone!

 

[Auskins]

Global warming isn't good or bad, it is pure fiction...

i use to think the same thing but it is now a well-know fact that we are destroying the ozone layer with our CO2 emissions:ORC
it is ture that the earth goes through a cycle of cold and hot times but it has never changed so quickly b4
even 2day with our much more powerful sun screens/blocks and healthcare compared to the early 1900s the skin cancer rate is higher

 

[Sasquatch]

I hear that because of the hot summer, the lakes are really warm.

Because of this, the lakes will take longer to freeze. If the lakes are open, the wind can pick up the moisture and blizzards for everyone!

Experiment that I done in school long ago. Hot water accually freezes faster than cold.

 

[Auskins]

i think its something to do with the energy it takes for it to freeze
when water reaches the freezing point it stays at if for so long (same for it to boil and evaporate)
i think because the hot water contains more energy? it doesn't stay at the freezing point for so long
i don't think the 3 or 4 degrees difference in the lakes will make much a difference

 

[BigGuns]

It's not just the temperature of the lake it's also how deep that warm water goes. With Lake Erie and Lake Ontario being so warm and with no end to the heat in site, WNY and Tug Hill could get hammered if things go right. We just need it to go right from summer to winter and not give the lakes a chance to cool.

 

[LazyBastard]

I hear that because of the hot summer, the lakes are really warm.

Because of this, the lakes will take longer to freeze. If the lakes are open, the wind can pick up the moisture and blizzards for everyone!

Experiment that I done in school long ago. Hot water accually freezes faster than cold.

Something sounds funny there. I think you're going to have to describe your experiment in great detail and determine that someone else can reproduce it repeatedly under a controlled (ie not your kitchen freezer because it WILL screw up the results) environment.

Water cools by releasing its energy into its environment. The higher the temperature, the more energy it has to relase. The rate of energy release is determined by conductivity and surface temperature differential.

In freezing two samples of water, one starting at 50 degrees (C) and the other starting at 20, once the 50 degree water has released enough energy to drop to 20 degrees, it is identical to the sample that started at 20 degrees, so the time it takes to freeze the 50 degree sample is exactly equal to the time it takes to freeze the 20 degree sample PLUS the time it takes to drop the initial 30 degrees from 50 to 20.


If you did this experiment in a kitchen freezer, the results will be screwed up by the fact that the temperature at any point inside the freezer is NOT CONSTANT. When the freezer warms up, the blower starts up, which can cause VERY RAPID cooling for its duration, and concentrated under the blower.




Where this hypothesis does NOT hold is where the water may be impure. Say there is something dissolved into the water... this could lower the freezing point or alter the conductivity. If this substance is evaporated when the temperature is raised, then the two samples may have different properties. Say for example you are trying this experiment on a bottle of Jack Daniels..... start one sample at room temperature, boil the other one for an hour. The one that was boiled will have a lower alcohol content and higher freezing temperature, so it may very well take less time to freeze for a particular pair of temperatures.

 

[Turbo Tim]

I think we are in a warming trend , I live in Alaska , portage glacier recedes makably every year , same way with all the glaciers .15 years ago it used to get -20 to -40 for weeks at a time in my area , lately it very seldom gets below 0 . We actually had several thundestorms and a couple of tornado's . This is unheard of in Alaska folks . I don't know what's going on but I am becoming a believer in Global warming .I don't necessarily believe the environmentalist point of view on it though .Most likely causes of nature at work.