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It snowed on the Gulf Coast today, so I got curious to measure the volume of water to air content of snow.

Casual Conversation @lemm.eeEnglish · 2 days ago

I cut the top of a 16.9 ounce water bottle off, and filled it flush to the top with loose dry snow to let melt and measure. The cut bottle measured right at 5½ inches tall, once it melted down there was right at ¾ of an inch of water. That’s only about 13.64% of the initial volume, meaning the snow was about 86.36% air.

We also just got a weather update for our town, they’re saying we got about 7 inches of snow, which would have only been just shy of an inch of rain (about 61/64 of an inch), if it hadn’t come down as snow.

Edit: 7 inches ≈ 1 banana

http://bananaforscale.info/#!/convert/length/7/inches/bananas

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Ahaha, a very reasonable response to snow from a living being with foot who doesn’t get to put on socks!

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