{"id":6998,"date":"2017-01-05T08:55:55","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T14:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/?p=6998"},"modified":"2017-01-05T08:55:55","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T14:55:55","slug":"too-cold-to-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/archives\/2017\/01\/05\/too-cold-to-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Cold to Snow?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years I heard the phrase &#8220;too cold to snow&#8221; but decided it was a lie after moving to Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>Jack&#8217;s personal weather station this morning:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/archives\/2017\/01\/05\/too-cold-to-snow\/20170105toocoldtosnow1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7005\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7005\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/archives\/2017\/01\/05\/too-cold-to-snow\/20170105toocoldtosnow1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/20170105toocoldtosnow1.jpg?fit=1200%2C798&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1200,798\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;6.7&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;PENTAX K100D&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1483600913&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;45&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Too Cold to Snow 1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/20170105toocoldtosnow1.jpg?fit=660%2C439&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7005\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/20170105toocoldtosnow1-500x333.jpg?resize=500%2C333\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/20170105toocoldtosnow1.jpg?resize=500%2C333&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/20170105toocoldtosnow1.jpg?resize=150%2C100&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/20170105toocoldtosnow1.jpg?resize=768%2C511&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/20170105toocoldtosnow1.jpg?resize=1024%2C681&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/20170105toocoldtosnow1.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Notice the minus 4F which was the outside temperature and the humidity of 86 percent. It&#8217;s not showing any precipitation because we are getting a very light, dry powder snow at present.<\/p>\n<p>The view outside our house:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/archives\/2017\/01\/05\/too-cold-to-snow\/20170105toocoldtosnow2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7006\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7006\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/archives\/2017\/01\/05\/too-cold-to-snow\/20170105toocoldtosnow2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/20170105toocoldtosnow2.jpg?fit=1200%2C798&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1200,798\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;PENTAX K100D&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1483601024&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;31&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.05&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"20170105toocoldtosnow2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/20170105toocoldtosnow2.jpg?fit=660%2C439&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7006\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/20170105toocoldtosnow2-500x333.jpg?resize=500%2C333\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/20170105toocoldtosnow2.jpg?resize=500%2C333&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/20170105toocoldtosnow2.jpg?resize=150%2C100&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/20170105toocoldtosnow2.jpg?resize=768%2C511&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/20170105toocoldtosnow2.jpg?resize=1024%2C681&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/20170105toocoldtosnow2.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I googled the phrase &#8220;too cold to snow&#8221; and found that is is almost never too cold to snow. However, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accuweather.com\/en\/features\/trend\/too-cold-to-snow\/6953983\">very cold snow will not hold as much moisture<\/a> as temperatures closer to freezing. Another mystery explained, courtesy of Google.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years I heard the phrase &#8220;too cold to snow&#8221; but decided it was a lie after moving to Colorado. Jack&#8217;s personal weather station this morning: Notice the minus 4F which was the outside temperature and the humidity of 86 percent. It&#8217;s not showing any precipitation because we are getting a very light, dry powder &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/archives\/2017\/01\/05\/too-cold-to-snow\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Too Cold to Snow?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,17,3,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-background","category-colorado","category-photos","category-snow"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Npw-1OS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6998"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7008,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6998\/revisions\/7008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}