No blast of spring this year.
Spring’s creeping in.
Softly.
Reluctantly.
We’ve been patient.
So now please bring on the sun!
Archive for the ‘water’ Category
Slow spring.
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011Spring drama.
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
Spring squall.
Tuesday, March 29th, 2011
Spring storms, or squalls, can be dramatic and fast moving.
Sometimes they deliver rain, sometimes snow, sometimes just odd white fluffy stuff.
And then they’re gone.
Sea ice.
Tuesday, February 8th, 2011
Ponds are all frozen over, even large ones, and now we’re seeing sea ice on the ocean.
Saltwater freezes below the freezing point of pure water, at about -1.8 °C (28.8 °F).
As sea water freezes, salt is excluded, because salt has a different crystalline structure: it forms cubic crystals (with four sides) whereas ice is hexagonal, or six-sided.
Snow can also accumulate on the water which makes a kind of fresh water slush that can turn into ice.
This is what might be called drift ice that floats on the surface and moves with the tides.
Beaches are frozen solid, just like our memories of summer.
Hard to believe that flip flops are in our future.
Blizzard.
Tuesday, December 28th, 2010
Just a tiny glimpse of yesterday’s storm.
In Maine, the bright, sunny days that come when a storm departs are always amazing!
