{"id":25855,"date":"2014-12-19T05:57:21","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T12:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=25855"},"modified":"2016-10-31T14:17:21","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T21:17:21","slug":"creative-prompt-289-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/creative-prompt-289-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Prompt #289: Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Snow Leopard Trust<\/p>\n<p>Darrin Kenneth O&#8217;Brien (born October 30, 1969), better known by his stage name Snow, is a Canadian reggae musician.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"st\">Poem 39 of the Library of Congress Poetry 180 Project: <em>Snow<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>National Snow &amp; Ice Center<\/p>\n<p>snow day<\/p>\n<p>snow tires<\/p>\n<p>snow forecast<\/p>\n<p>snow minecraft<\/p>\n<p>Snow Report<\/p>\n<p>Snow and company<\/p>\n<p>Snow blower<\/p>\n<p>Snow conditions<\/p>\n<p>Snowboard<\/p>\n<p>Snow Plow Map<\/p>\n<p>Snow Day Calculator<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Snow\" target=\"_blank\">Definition<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;<b>Snow<\/b> is <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Precipitation (meteorology)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Precipitation_%28meteorology%29\">precipitation<\/a> in the form of flakes of <a title=\"Crystal\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crystal\">crystalline<\/a> <a title=\"Water\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Water\">water<\/a> <a title=\"Ice\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ice\">ice<\/a> that falls from <a title=\"Cloud\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cloud\">clouds<\/a>. Since snow is composed of small ice particles, it is a <a title=\"Granular material\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Granular_material\">granular material<\/a>. It has an open and therefore soft, white, and fluffy structure, unless subjected to external <a title=\"Pressure\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pressure\">pressure<\/a>. <a title=\"Snowflake\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Snowflake\">Snowflakes<\/a> come in a variety of sizes and shapes. Types that fall in the form of a ball due to melting and refreezing, rather than a flake, are known as <a title=\"Hail\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hail\">hail<\/a>, <a title=\"Ice pellets\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ice_pellets\">ice pellets<\/a> or <a title=\"Snow grains\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Snow_grains\">snow grains<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The process of precipitating snow is called <b>snowfall<\/b>. Snowfall tends to form within regions of upward movement of air around a type of <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Low-pressure system\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Low-pressure_system\">low-pressure system<\/a> known as an <a title=\"Extratropical cyclone\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Extratropical_cyclone\">extratropical cyclone<\/a>. Snow can fall poleward of these systems&#8217; associated <a title=\"Warm front\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Warm_front\">warm fronts<\/a> and within their comma head precipitation patterns (called such due to the comma-like shape of the cloud and precipitation pattern around the poleward and west sides of extratropical cyclones). Where relatively warm water bodies are present, for example because of water evaporation from lakes, <a title=\"Lake-effect snow\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lake-effect_snow\">lake-effect snowfall<\/a> becomes a concern downwind of the warm lakes within the cold cyclonic flow around the backside of extratropical cyclones. Lake-effect <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Snowfall\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Snowfall\">snowfall<\/a> can be heavy locally. <a title=\"Thundersnow\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thundersnow\">Thundersnow<\/a> is possible within a cyclone&#8217;s comma head and within lake effect precipitation bands. In mountainous areas, heavy snow is possible where upslope flow is maximized within <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Windward\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Windward\">windward<\/a> sides of the terrain at elevation, if the atmosphere is cold enough. Snowfall amount and its related liquid equivalent precipitation amount are measured using a variety of different <a title=\"Rain gauge\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rain_gauge\">rain gauges<\/a>.&#8221; (Wikipedia)<\/p>\n<p>Post the direct URL (link) where your drawing, doodle, artwork is posted (e.g. your blog, Flickr) in the comments area of this post. I would really like to keep all the artwork together and provide a way for others to see your work and\/or your blog.<\/p>\n<p>We are also talking about this on Twitter. Use the hashtag #CPP<\/p>\n<p>The Creative Prompt Project, also, has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/aqcpp\" target=\"_blank\">Flickr group<\/a>, which you can join to\u00a0 post your responses. I created this spot so those of you without blogs and websites would have a place to post your responses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snow Leopard Trust Darrin Kenneth O&#8217;Brien (born October 30, 1969), better known by his stage name Snow, is a Canadian reggae musician. Poem 39 of the Library of Congress Poetry 180 Project: Snow. National Snow &amp; Ice Center snow day snow tires snow forecast snow minecraft Snow Report Snow and company Snow blower Snow conditions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/creative-prompt-289-snow\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Creative Prompt #289: Snow&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[381],"tags":[79,311,72],"class_list":["post-25855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-381","tag-creative-prompt","tag-creativity","tag-group-project"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}