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Humidity Dance

Gerry and Sandra Author:Gerry and Sandra posts : 410   (Expert)Date : 12-16-14 11:27

Humidity Dance

There is a report on Borosport Facebook page giving a summary of the snow conditions.
It is in Bulgarian but Goggle does a fairly reasonable job of translating it.
The point I found interesting is that they say that if the humidity is high the temperatures have to be below minus 3 degrees for the snow cannons to work.
But if the humidity is low the snow cannons can work even at plus 2 to 3 degrees.
So it seems that snow dancing on it's own is not enough.
Somebody has to quickly come up ...
There is a report on Borosport Facebook page giving a summary of the snow conditions.
It is in Bulgarian but Goggle does a fairly reasonable job of translating it.
The point I found interesting is that they say that if the humidity is high the temperatures have to be below minus 3 degrees for the snow cannons to work.
But if the humidity is low the snow cannons can work even at plus 2 to 3 degrees.
So it seems that snow dancing on it's own is not enough.
Somebody has to quickly come up with a humidity dance.
Happy dance

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pabs Author:pabs posts : 289   (Expert)Date : 12-16-14 11:59

re:Humidity Dance

Hi Gerry,
It's all about " latent heat of evaporation" and "sensible heat". Yet to find anything in Borovets that's sensible, so it won't work. Can't it just snow lots and put us all out of our misery.
Steve C Author:Steve C posts : 2898   (Master)Date : 12-16-14 20:17

re:Humidity Dance

Steady boys................ it's coming Wink