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Basically I saw a few small stones (about 2cm big roughly) with a small circle (about 5cm diameter) of no snow around them. Does anyone know how this happens?
This thread can go two ways..either a LOL fest or a correct scientific explanation!
Not sure if this is the right forum mods...do move it otherwise.
Basically I saw a few small stones (about 2cm big roughly) with a small circle (about 5cm diameter) of no snow around them. Does anyone know how this happens?
Stones generate a snow repelling forcefield around them, hence causing the effect you see when snow starts to pour on the ground. I thought this was common knowledge people...
The stones might have offered the ground some protection from the snow. To be honest it sounds like the kind of thing a particular type of prankster might do to confuse others.
BeanofJelly
NO! Stone is particularly vulnerable to snow and ice! Did you learn nothing from pokemon????
I've seen this before so the OP isn't crazy (or we both are ). Can't be done by the stone shadowing the snow (because it's in a circle round the stone - not just one side), and it's not buildings either. It's literally a couple of centimetres of no snow round the edge of a stone (well, pebble is probably a more accurate representation of where I've noticed it).
To be honest it sounds like the kind of thing a particular type of prankster might do to confuse others.
Wrong way round!
yeah but is it is usually in different places. I have seen it on different pavements. I just wondered how it is possible? No bigger than the 2cm stones.
I've seen this before so the OP isn't crazy (or we both are ). Can't be done by the stone shadowing the snow (because it's in a circle round the stone - not just one side), and it's not buildings either. It's literally a couple of centimetres of no snow round the edge of a stone (well, pebble is probably a more accurate representation of where I've noticed it).
but there is loads of snow surrounding the stones.
Yes i can confirm that it is true there is snow surrounding the stones because the negative charge of the ground cancels out the possitve charge of the rock so there is no force acting on it.