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Usually because the air temperature around it rises above freezing. However, this is not the only way:
- The sun can melt snow, especially when the sun angle is high (when you are farther from the winter solstice, at a lower latitude, or a combination) and the slope and aspect of the land under the snow is conducive to it
- Heat generated from friction can melt snow, and this is best seen on roadways as tires repeatedly track over it. Same with sidewalks.
- Chemicals in the snow, usually salt added by people, lower the melting temperature, allowing snow to melt at temperatures in the 20's Fahrenheit.
- Snow can sublimate, quite readily under some conditions. The best conditions for sublimation are strong, dry winds. The Chinooks of the North American Great Plains do just this quite effectively.)
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Snow can disappear through a process called sublimation, where it transitions directly from a solid to a gas without melting first. This can happen when the temperature is too cold for the snow to melt, but sunlight and air movement cause it to slowly evaporate. Snow can also disappear by melting into water when temperatures rise above freezing.
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How could snow disappear without making a puddle?
Snow can disappear without making a puddle through a process called sublimation, where snow changes directly from a solid to a gas without melting into liquid water. This can happen when the surrounding air is very dry, causing the snow to evaporate into water vapor. So, in a dry environment, snow can disappear without leaving a puddle.
When does the snow go on Animal Crossing?
In Animal Crossing, snow typically arrives in December and can be seen in the game until February. The exact timing may vary slightly depending on the version of the game you are playing.
What is the noun for disappear?
The noun forms for the verb to disappear are disappearance and the gerund, disappearing.
What does the nuclear membrane disappear?
Anaphase
Will it snow snow in December 2011?
It is guaranteed that it will snow somewhere. Whether or not you will get snow depends on where you live.
When snow seems to disappear without actually melting what do you think happened?
Sublimation happens.
It flies without wings drops without fear disappear in warm hand what is that?
snow
What are some examples of fusion?
a warm wind makes snow on the ground disappear but no puddles form
Why did the iceman oetzi disappeared for?
He did not disappear he went to take a nap and it started snowing and he was covered with snow and nobody knew where he was.
How could snow disappear without making a puddle?
Snow can disappear without making a puddle through a process called sublimation, where snow changes directly from a solid to a gas without melting into liquid water. This can happen when the surrounding air is very dry, causing the snow to evaporate into water vapor. So, in a dry environment, snow can disappear without leaving a puddle.
Is there snow on top of the mountains in the Sonoran Desert?
Snow is a rarity in southern Arizona so would be seen on the mountains only after a rare winter snowstorm in the Sonoran Desert. It would quickly disappear, however.
What starts to disappear in fall?
all the grass dies all the bears go hibernate the lakes freeze the lakes get cove rd by snow and trees die
When does the snow go on Animal Crossing?
In Animal Crossing, snow typically arrives in December and can be seen in the game until February. The exact timing may vary slightly depending on the version of the game you are playing.
What is the future tense of disappear?
The future tense of "disappear" is "will disappear."
Why do polar patches disappear during the Martian summer?
Polar patches on Mars are made of carbon dioxide ice (dry ice) and when Mars experiences warmer temperatures in the summer, the ice sublimates directly from solid to gas. This causes the polar patches to disappear as the dry ice evaporates into the atmosphere.
Does gold disappear when you touch it?
No It does not disappear
What is the plural of disappear?
The plural of disappear is disappears. As in "the magician disappears.
