snow!!!

It was raining when I woke up. Now, at 09:15, there are more white, fluffy "drops" falling than there are wet-rain drops. Somehow I doubt that anything will stick, but it *does* bring a smile to my face nonetheless!


Edit hours later: The local newspaper described today's snow fall as:

"An icy blast has brought snow to the centre of Hobart, with heavy falls in elevated suburbs and hail and sleet across much of the rest of the city and surrounds."

Today's snow made me smile, but that report made me laugh outright. You see, "heavy falls" caused accumulation of snow a few millimetres thick on the ground in my neighbourhood, which is one of the "elevated suburbs" they were speaking of. Somehow, after having grown up with real snow (read: it sticks on the ground for 4 to 6 months of the year) it is impossible to call the light, oh-so-cute, flurries we had today as "heavy falls". Indeed, I've seen it snow heavily enough here to accumulate a couple of inches thickness at this elevation, so even by Hobart standards this was only a dusting. Silly reporter!

snow!!!

It was raining when I woke up. Now, at 09:15, there are more white, fluffy "drops" falling than there are wet-rain drops. Somehow I doubt that anything will stick, but it *does* bring a smile to my face nonetheless!


Edit hours later: The local newspaper described today's snow fall as:

"An icy blast has brought snow to the centre of Hobart, with heavy falls in elevated suburbs and hail and sleet across much of the rest of the city and surrounds."

Today's snow made me smile, but that report made me laugh outright. You see, "heavy falls" caused accumulation of snow a few millimetres thick on the ground in my neighbourhood, which is one of the "elevated suburbs" they were speaking of. Somehow, after having grown up with real snow (read: it sticks on the ground for 4 to 6 months of the year) it is impossible to call the light, oh-so-cute, flurries we had today as "heavy falls". Indeed, I've seen it snow heavily enough here to accumulate a couple of inches thickness at this elevation, so even by Hobart standards this was only a dusting. Silly reporter!

just a sleepy progress report

534 new words, 4 new figures. Over seven hours of uni-related tasks today, but some of that was a meeting with my advisor (very, very helpful, as always!), and attending the departmental seminar (can we metamorphic petrologists have a modelling program which is as user-friendly in its interface as the Petrolog-III program which Prof. Pavel Plechov of the Moscow State University, Russia spoke to us about? His models which minerals will crystallize out of a melt (or what composition of fluid will melt out of a solid), and has nice friendly buttons and drop-down menus for all of the input needed, including a button to "export to (or from) an Excel spreadsheet". This looks ever so much easier to use than the programs for modelling which metamorphic minerals will be in equilibrium at any given temperature-pressure-bulk rock composition. But then again, the crystallizing from a melt story is not as complex.)

just a sleepy progress report

534 new words, 4 new figures. Over seven hours of uni-related tasks today, but some of that was a meeting with my advisor (very, very helpful, as always!), and attending the departmental seminar (can we metamorphic petrologists have a modelling program which is as user-friendly in its interface as the Petrolog-III program which Prof. Pavel Plechov of the Moscow State University, Russia spoke to us about? His models which minerals will crystallize out of a melt (or what composition of fluid will melt out of a solid), and has nice friendly buttons and drop-down menus for all of the input needed, including a button to "export to (or from) an Excel spreadsheet". This looks ever so much easier to use than the programs for modelling which metamorphic minerals will be in equilibrium at any given temperature-pressure-bulk rock composition. But then again, the crystallizing from a melt story is not as complex.)