Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Ipswich River in Snow


The snow we didn't get last week, we've gotten today. I took the car in for servicing and walked home, stopping on the way to take a couple of pictures of the Ipswich River in snow.

Someone told me that recently 49 states had snow on the ground at the same time, only Hawaii was snow-free.



7 comments:

peaceable_tate said...

49 states with snow on the ground?!?? Wow, global warming denialists will be in a frenzy.

The Bride said...

Yes, I believe the entire state of Florida is now a haven for global warming denialists.

For one brief moment last week they had more snow on the ground than we had here. We had none, they had 4 inches on the panhandle.

Vivi said...

I keep reading "Global Warning Dentists" instead of "global warming denialists". Very different things.

David Briggs said...

According to local Weatherman Paul Douglas, all _50_ states have snow on the ground right now, Hawaii up in the mountains, and lower down in the other 49.

Brrrrrr.

Dabris

The Bride said...

Hawaii has snow on the mountains? I thought their mountains were volcanoes. Clearly I must make a fact-finding trip someday.

David Briggs said...

Carolyn, what do you think Mount Rainer in Washington is? It's of course a volcano. In fact the STATE of Hawaii is built on the tops of some very old volcanos, (IIRC Mauna Loa is even taller [from its base] then Everest is), so of course they can get high enough for snow.

But a Recce (or American English, Recon) does sound like fun)

Whatever

DaBris

The Bride said...

I know they get high enough for snow, but the difference between Mount Ranier and Hawaii is the activity. Hawaii has active lava flows. I assumed lava and snow couldn't co-exist.