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Too Cold to Snow! by hieraco2005-11-29 06:11:23
  Imperfect observers. by roverdaddy2005-11-29 06:29:33
    There's also *too dry* to snow by MatthewDBA2005-11-29 06:34:44
      Erm, not quite... by Tars_Tarkas2005-11-29 07:26:33
        Hmm, that doesn't sound right by MatthewDBA2005-11-29 07:30:17
          Of course it doesn't rain over the sea. by Tars_Tarkas2005-11-29 07:40:31
            Well today it's supposed to rain by MatthewDBA2005-11-29 07:56:24
              yes, Tars is right by SciSSorS 2005-11-29 08:55:43
Look at it this way:
You go into a Sauna "palace" (not directly the sauna room itself) wearing your glasses: WHOOP, don't see nobody no more (there's enough "bodies" there, but you don't see them.
After a little while, your glasses warm up, and the condensation of the damp air goes away: the fog (condensed water, drops) are gone now. They only existed on you COLD glasses.
The air in the palace though, is as damp as before, but the vapour (gaseous wate) is as invisible as pure air.

Same thing in the evening on a warm summer day: it has been warm all day, and everyone "predicted" there would come thunder ... it didn't.
But now, in the evening, the chairs we sit on are getting wet all of a sudden, it isn't raining but "really wet"
Well, the "air" was already filled with water (vapour) for some hours now (people "felt" that and thus the prediction of thunder / bad weathe) but with the sunset the same air is cooling. Cooling down, the vapour starts to ... condensate, making tiny drops and feeling really very wet.

And yes, warm water will "hold" more sugar (and salt and ... ) than cold water, much in the same way warm air (Katrina grew above the warm sea) holds more vapour than does cold air. So going over land,the water poured down, much more vigorously than it did over sea (and it did more damage as well, as the sea is an ideal place to send water to but land isn't)

But liquid water can hold MORE of some gasses (Cl2 , CO2) when it's cold too. That has another reason though.

(So how can coke exist? It's cold, and holds CO2 well ... but it should be WARM to hold the sugar ? )
[ Reply ]
                you mean warmer to hold more sugar.... (n/t) by gibuu2005-11-29 09:06:37
                Sugar is *really* soluble in water though (n/t) by MatthewDBA2005-11-29 09:10:54
                Actually, salt isn't one of the substances by Tars_Tarkas2005-11-29 09:29:24
                  Most (if not all) chlorides by MatthewDBA2005-11-29 10:16:24
                    Ah, so it was the other way around... (n/t) by Tars_Tarkas2005-11-29 10:42:39

 

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