So what is snow? Snow may look fluffy and soft, but its actually not. Snow is very simple. It forms when water condenses on dust and dirt particles high up in the atmosphere. That's right, snow is basically just dirt. That's also why its always cloudy when it snows. Clouds are the water vapor that condenses on the dirt. When its cold enough, these water particles freeze creating that white puffy stuff we see in winter!
My mom showed me this really cool video. As it is Winter, I thought that this was an appropriate video. Eddy Cartaya and his friend decided to explore a few of the many caves in Oregon. Glacier caves are formed when the weather warms up and ice begins to turn into small streams of water. These streams of water form caves throughout the ice! In these caves there are many things. Things that had frozen in the ice above slowly melt towards the bottom throughout the years. Soon they find there way into the caves that lace the glacier. There can be things that are hundreds of years old! This video shows a journey taken by Eddy Cartaya and his friend to explore and map the glacial caves of Oregon. According to a few websites, the most popular Christmas gift isn't a toy helicopter, a video game, or anything like that. It's not a toy, kitchen utensil, or accessory. It's a gift card. Now why would a gift card be the number one selling Christmas item? Well for starters its versatile. It can fit in any envelope. You don't need to spend hours wrapping it up. Secondly it's easy to find. Walk into Target or Best Buy and there they are, right up front. Lastly it saves the hassle of finding that one obscure gift. Just allow the receiver to find it and pay for it with a gift card. As you can see, gift cards are very helpful to get gifts. Thats just one idea though.
School just ended for Christmas break. Christmas is getting closer every day and that means spending money on gifts for loved ones. Christmas shopping can be fun or stressful depending on your personality. But you know all those gifts add up. The average american spends about 700- 900 dollars on Christmas shopping each year. That's a lot. And of course there were those off years where people spent a lot less or a lot more, but this is the normal number for most years. Don't worry though, its worth it.
This week I was tracking the winter storm that was about to hit our area. I really wanted to get a snow day so I kept checking the weather to see if it was going to snow. I used a different website though called GoesEast. It is great. It is the satellite imagery from the Goes Satellite. You can pick from many different settings that show you water vapor, clouds, heat, etc. (Click on the picture to visit the sight).
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