Re: Mesozoic snow - refined

[MariusRomanus@aol.com]

I forgot one very important thing. The type of snow.

Mike, since you are painting this, you'd be interested to know that the snow 
that would have fallen wouldn't have been nice and light and fluffy. We are 
talking wet and heavy given the temperatures involved. In fact, I'd be willing 
to bet that when these cold air excursions happened, it's not just snow that 
fell... more like a mixed bag of snow, sleet, and rain. In other words, it 
would have been a very, very crappy day in paradise. And if it happened to get 
really cold, I'm also willing to bet that you had more than one warm layer 
aloft, so what fell to the ground wasn't snow flakes, but snow grains.

Kris
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