*** Quoting Cindy Haglund from a message to Mike Roberts ***

 CH> What I am thinking Mike is about those bitter cold days in the first
 CH> week of January up your way. :) The air was frigid, the snow powdery
 CH> someplace about this condition of frigid air that below a certain
 CH> temp (I think 20F) the air is too dry for it to snow? You won't see
 CH> clouds ; not enough moisture.

That is for sure, it gets down in the single digits and below and it usually 
does not snow. I think also if You get below 18 or near there, Salt ( which 
they generally use up here in NY ) does not work well. Boy! Do I love January 
and February!!  But fortuneatly for me I like my seasons..

 CH> But then rise a bit above 20 and there's most likely to be enough
 CH> moisture for snow and then above freezing, rain.

Check this out.. I let the dogs out Sunday Morning and it was raining. Not 
too odd, cept for it was 17 degrees out there. That is the coldest I have 
ever seen it rain. The upper atmosphere must have still thought it was in 
texas . It did not freeze by the time it hit the ground.

Catch ya later
Mike

... If you really want to know, you won't ask me.

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