The Weather Notebook: Brainstorm: Snowbows

Brainstorm: Snowbows
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Dave Thurlow, Host

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Hi, I'm Dave Thurlow for The Weather Notebook. Today on the show, it's time once again for a brand new Weather Notebook Brainstorm. What I do here is ask a question about something having to do with the weather. Now, if you have a notion about an answer to the question, you are strongly encouraged to pass it along to us here at The Mount Washington Weather Observatory for rigorous dissection and analysis. And if you're right, wrong, or indifferent, we'll send you a poster.

So, the question for today's Brainstorm actually comes from one of you among our legions of listeners. Here goes:

"Hi, my name is Ellen Nortstrom Bear. I live in Norwich, VT. I have a question, its probably very silly but I know that there's always a rainbow when the sun shines and there's some precipitation. I'm just curious why when we have snow on sunny days why we don't have a snow bow?...I love listening to you en route to work to Concord, NH on WEVO radio."

Well, that's what we like to hear, some weather afficianados right here in our own back yard. So, to sum up Ellen's question, today's Brainstorm, we have rainbows when's its rainy and sunny, why don't we have snowbows when it's snowy and sunny?

If you have an answer, please send it to us via email, brainstorms@mountwashington.org or go right to our website and read the question again and send an answer from there. The best thing to do however is call our toll free number at 1-888-RAIN-001. That's 1-888-RAIN-001.

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