Re: Snow Photos

Johnson Barr Wrote:
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> Exactly, Russ -
>
> As the oceans get warmer, more water
> evaporates.  The more water that's in the
> atmosphere, the more rain and snow you're gonna
> get.

I was about to say more or less the same thing, but JB beat me to it. More thermal energy means an amplified hydrologic cycle: more evaporation, more convection, and more moisture in the atmosphere in general.. A warmer climate therefore means increased precipitation of all kinds, at least in terms of the global average, both in the form of summer rain and winter snow, and this is especially true in the middle latitudes and at higher elevations. (The inter-annual variation seems to be increasing as well though, so the wet years in any one place are getting wetter and the dry years in any one place are getting drier -- a sort of feast-and-famine situation.)

-Philip Marshall