Question for Gonzo

[Steph]

I know that you like to puzzle over these things. (Kamikazi pilots and helmets)

 

Here is a question. O hjave been driving around the home counties for the past few days and my car has got covered in the dirty salt that the gritters put down. So much so that some parts of the car are a dirty white.

 

The question I have got is, Why was there a half inch of snow on my car this morning surely it should have melted!

[Tom S]

I think the grit only works when it is driven into the snow by traffic driving over it.

[The Invisible Man]

It was probably modern metric salt.

 

Your car did not have 13mm of snow on it, but the unfortunately there must have been a fall of old fashioned imperial snow, which the new salt doesn't work on.

[Gonzo]

My suspicion is that there was at one point (probably in the early hours) a full inch of snow on your car. However, by the time you emerged from your home the air temperature had risen sufficiently that half of the original inch had melted away leaving a half inch.

 

(....or perhaps Invis has got it right!)

[Southport - TOWNER]

more snow in enfield

 

but junior is gutted as it has not settled, again

[Gonzo]

Quote:

Steph said:
Why was there a half inch of snow on my car this morning surely it should have melted!

As always the real answer is: it's the wrong type of snow.

Little known fact:

In the Home Counties the gritters cater for a powder-based snow which is unique to their region. (This is due to the presence of what is known as a 'micro-climate'). Needless to say this type of grit is singularly ineffective when faced with your common 'flake' as is prevalent in Middlesex and much of the surrounding areas at the present time.

That is why there was still snow on your grit-covered car.

[Southport - TOWNER]

Gonzo - you don't half talk a load of grit!

[MbrunoB]

But at least he SALTed it out.

[Mr Happy]

Yep, snow joke, it's (n)ice to have such a bright person on these forums.