was the most interesting thing. (i hate snow. comes near the end of October, stays till May. just looks like white, cold sand. even makes snow drifts. Basically a sand dune of snow, that can't even support the weight of a cat. its so fine that it looks like a river of snow on the highway.)
I love the random short videos explaining natural phenomena you encounter, it's super interesting! I would love if this were to become a regular series, you don't even have to waste time editing it.
There are plenty of really minute things we experience and over look on a daily basis, but I mean in the long run rather than a daily/weekly series. @@werner.x
@@alexsguha That sure would work. I think, Cody is quite good at that already. I don't want to put pressure on him - he already has sacrificed important things of his life - maybe related to his youtube activities, who knows.
A natural lab experiment that most of us would have not seen and Cody was luckly about and took the time to share and explain to us how it happened. Thank you Cody, keep crunching on :)
The huge aspect of the glittery snow is the stereography. One eye sees totally different sparkles than the other one which confuses our brains a lot. That's why it's so pretty.
That looks amazing, I used to have this one steep hillside in my yard that would grow these until they conglomerated into a delicate crust layer and I never really thought about why it would form but I'd almost always break off a piece and move it around in the sunlight. I'm not sure I ever would've recalled that memory without this video, thank you Cody and thanks for explaining the phenomenon too
ICE FEATHERS! ..... AHHHHHH!!!! Jump scare! That mouse... uh boy. :) I caught an occasional glint of what you were speaking of so I am CERTAIN that in person it must be a fabulous sight. Peaceful Skies.
This reminds me of a vacation I went on in my youth. We stopped by Arches National Park in the early spring. Similar structures had formed on the patches of snow making the whole landscape shimmer and sparkle as we hiked around the reddish brown sandstone.
That's really neat. I've seen something sorta similar on the frozen lake next to our town, while the ice was still fresh and smooth and hadn't been covered by snow. But instead of tiny grass-like structures, it formed fewer but much much larger flower-like structures. It might have been just due to freezing fog instead of this sublimation process (or maybe it was the ice sublimating in the sun), but it was also fascinating.
I've seen this effect here in the UK when we had a cold blast about 15 or so years ago (the one that made "super-efficient" condensing boilers stop working, cos the externally-routed condensate pipes froze solid!), I went out on a walk in the cold weather and noted a lot of the untouched laying snow had grown these long crystals like this, it was quite an interesting sight to see, never knew how it formed, but now I do... :D
Reminds me of seeing needle ice when hiking. Warm water in the ground causes capillary action and the cold air freezes the water as it comes out of the ground leaving ice needles!
These formations are called "Penitentes" and are named after a Catholic tradition where men dress in white costumes and pointy hats as part of a ceremony of penance. I believe they still carry the tradition in the Philippines.
All snow looks alien to me where I live, but that definitely looks different than any snow I've seen on a TV screen! Looks like frozen grass, except way cooler
I've never seen this despite living in cold, cold Canada. I've seen something similar after foggy nights when the frost falls off the trees, but never crystals standing up like that!
Really cool! I had no idea that sublimating ice/snow can cause this. Altough I'm quite familar with sublimation. For example thin layers of ice and snow on streets often tend to vanish over time (especially if it's sunny and windy) - even if the temperature never goes above freezing. It never melts and makes the street wet, but just vanishes and leave the asphalt dry (which is often nice as it also means the friction driving or walking on it will be pretty like summer on the dried up parts). Also if food is forgotten in the freezer for too long in a plastic bag (for example bread). It dries out while much of the water vapour never leave the bag either - the vapour condensate again and build a layer of frost on the inside of the bag.
Very interesting facts. Kind of reminds me of how rock formations form in a cave. Just a little bit different when you mentioned how the water read deposits on the Crystal and it just keeps getting longer and longer that's what came in my mind.
It doesn't get nearly cold enough for anything like that to happen here, we barely get a couple days of snow as it is, but this is super cool to see! Also mouse jumpscare AAAAAH!!!!!
I've lived all my life in Canada and I've never seen snow do that before! Probably because we don't tend to get just a little bit of snow very often... It usually comes in snowstorms that lay it pretty thick.
I see this in my freezer. I've seen it in winter time on a small scale, but never like this! And also didn't know it was because of the subimation happening in the ground. I always thought it was just the regular moisture in the air. Thanks for sharing!
lol the youtube compression hates your glittery snow... What a fascinating and complex mechanism you've demystified here! Us Floridians can only stare in wonder at our screens thinking 40F is so freakin cold, it's gotta be just a few degrees from absolute zero, right!? lol
