Monday, December 29, 2025

Sublimation & Snow Pearls

 The Guaprel, aka Snow Pearls, that I took a video of:


The snow pearls were a rare thing.  Someone at Church, who is a longtime Brandon resident, told me he had never seen it before.

From him, I learned the technical name of a phenomenon I had noticed, where the dry cold air seemed to suck up the snow.  This change of state from a solid to gas is called sublimation.

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