We woke up to a surprise this morning! We had had two days of rain, and most of the snow had melted. Yesterday after stake conference, we purposely drove through a gigantic puddle as we exited the parking lot, just for fun. When we got home, the kids were commenting on how green the big patches of exposed grass were.
It started snowing at about 3:00 or so yesterday afternoon. I didn't really think much of it, but North American Weather Consultants called me and told me to turn on the cloud seeder at about 6:00pm and leave it on until they called me this morning. The cloud seeder doesn't really affect the weather right here, but it burns propane and puts silver iodide into the atmosphere, aiming for a certain altitude and temperature pocket. They don't call on every storm, but only when the conditions are just right. What they are hoping for is that the water particles will collect around the silver iodide and fall down (precipitate) instead of just passing over. That could happen as far as 100 miles away. This picture shows the cloud seeder with the propane tank behind it. The tank on the bottom of the thing with the flame is where the silver iodide is kept, and I release it by opening a valve until the guage shows the right level.
The suburban had a nice layer on it! Thankfully, we have a very nice neighbor who uses his four-wheeler to plow our parking area.
Joshua, Molly, and Matthew went out immediately after breakfast and chores to work on a snow fort that had been in jeopardy because of the rain. 
It started snowing at about 3:00 or so yesterday afternoon. I didn't really think much of it, but North American Weather Consultants called me and told me to turn on the cloud seeder at about 6:00pm and leave it on until they called me this morning. The cloud seeder doesn't really affect the weather right here, but it burns propane and puts silver iodide into the atmosphere, aiming for a certain altitude and temperature pocket. They don't call on every storm, but only when the conditions are just right. What they are hoping for is that the water particles will collect around the silver iodide and fall down (precipitate) instead of just passing over. That could happen as far as 100 miles away. This picture shows the cloud seeder with the propane tank behind it. The tank on the bottom of the thing with the flame is where the silver iodide is kept, and I release it by opening a valve until the guage shows the right level.This morning we woke up to 6-7 inches of snow by my estimate---Russ says it is 8 inches. Since I haven't lived in Idaho for 20 years, it seems like a lot! A big branch broke off one of our trees in the front yard under the weight of the snow. 
I started the oatmeal before I looked outside, but later I decided it was a perfect day for oatmeal. It's nice and warm and it sticks to your bones. While the kids were eating I decided to go outside and take pictures. Matthew was still in bed. 
The suburban had a nice layer on it! Thankfully, we have a very nice neighbor who uses his four-wheeler to plow our parking area.Joshua, Molly, and Matthew went out immediately after breakfast and chores to work on a snow fort that had been in jeopardy because of the rain. 
Hannah shoveled and now says her back is sore, unfortunately! She's so tall and so far from the ground that she has to bend over quite a bit. Katie went out just to revel in the white stuff!
3 comments:
Looks like a lot of fun! I wish there was snow in May when I'll be in Idaho, but I'm not going to count on it. At least we got a couple inches of snow here this year.
Just seeing if this works. I think it does now. :)
That was SO nice of you to write that arrangement for the Jenkins family. My mom is very lucky to have a composer on hand! I can't believe you were able to do it on such short notice.
So who is playing the cello part for the YW broadcast? By the way, I think it was a little rude of them to ask you to add the part after the piece was written. It seems that they don't know what you go through to do this.
P.S. Glad you got the background to work. It looks cute!
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