ABOUT SNOW.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 422, 3 February 1909, Page 4

ABOUT SNOW.

.•;'■ -According to an? eminent;;-auSfioiity-':.tt«. Bairiey;auses that produce a : fall of snow -in. tho-open air—namely,ia/subjection-of moist atmosphere to a temperature'cold enough to-' crystallise tho'-drops' of.:jnoisturej£that are formed—may, /of coiirsb,'' takb' place' under artificial 'conditions..;; There ";is-aiiOTJnst.iiice, oh 1 record that a man who: wa's'Waiffing rap--idly along/the. street-on' and had by; violent exercise: into a condition of profuse pcrspiratitfnWook off. his: tall hat in saint jug a Iriend^M-'-aa. be did; so: was'.astonished .to feel wbaingyas apparently ;a; slight fail of stibjroii'-his head;' J J assjrig : his hand: over' his ,-h'oad; : ''heV found several .unmistakable flake's 'of snovf :u tfiffi. it is supposed, that the:freezm'g'buter/Vr condensed the moist' warm 1 --air;. withfr? !;j iSe man's' tall hat;so sii'ddonly'that;'a-'.veritable snow storm of miniature.proportions was'pro-itaced.-y :';--■-'; / :; ;' : '-'.; ; ;-;>:';:'-.". :.>':•'. .-.''•-■'■'

; -A similar incident ohce'.bccurred in Swe- ' den. On a ; very cold,'-clear ing ■ party'-:was; given;-in.: a'-.salori holm. -Many persons vwere: gathered ifa'.^u.T isingle room,- and; it'. became. - so' warni •-'% at' several..women ■"complained-, of feeling-ill. ■''-'A'tf-,''" attempt ;was'-then;.made : to^raise!a:wirid6w-;-"-■ but. the sashes,had : : been:. frozehV : in ■their'.".V ; places,- an'd-.it was impossible'.'to niove'-them;'- •'. ; In.. tn»i'situation,-; it --.was ; absolutely: necesr--pary-that.air should be admitted,:so a paneof glass, was.smashed out.' 'Immojiatelv. a cold,ourrent,:of;air rushed' in;.'and .'at'"the;' samo instant.-.Hates- of 1 show were seen to' fall' to,.'the, floof in- all:parts'. of the room,; - ,The,.entrance--of a •':frosty 'current into ai- : . ' atmosphero saturated-with, moisturehad pro ' duced a,snowfall indoors.- :':.'' ■ •-. :