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A newbie question - Max Freezing Level?

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Started by Jan I Stenmark in Snow Forecasts and Snow Reports - 5 Replies

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Jan I Stenmark posted Mar-2008

As most of you know I can't help asking dumb questions :oops:

Having been reading these charts for some time I feel even more foolish than usual asking this one, but can anyone explain the importance of a "Max Freezing Level"? as per the J2Ski reports, for example: http://www.j2ski.com/snow_forecast/Austria/Niederau_snow.html

So, looking at today's forecast I see that the Minimum Freezing Level is 20m (at the time of writing) - kinda got that bit but the Max is at 720m ?!?!? So what happens above that? Do we have an new and unknown state of matter, does it thaw or spin off into a whole new dimension?? Pavel – Can you advise on the best wax to use in this snow state?

Hopefully someone will come to my rescue!

Cheers

Jan

Ellistine
reply to 'A newbie question - Max Freezing Level?'
posted Mar-2008

It gives Dave 700m of leeway! Always hedging his bets our admin man. It will mostly be frozen between 20m and 720m but where exactly nobody knows. He likes to keep up guessing!

I would say, if you've got any beers outside cooling, bring'em in before they freeze!

Edited 1 time. Last update at 06-Mar-2008

Admin
reply to 'A newbie question - Max Freezing Level?'
posted Mar-2008

Tsk tsk... Jan, when the Max Freezing Level goes over your head... it's gonna melt... got that?

Freezing Level is the altitude at which the air temperature will be zero - Min and Max are for the 24-hours, so the Min will usually be sometime during the night and Max sometime during the afternoon.

Anyway, never mind about that... there hasn't been a bulge like this in the wiggly lines for months :-

Precipitation and Temperature for Geneva

Oo err missus, I can feel a short break coming on...
The Admin Man

Ellistine
reply to 'A newbie question - Max Freezing Level?'
posted Mar-2008

Admin wrote:Anyway, never mind about that... there hasn't been a bulge like this in the wiggly lines for months :-
And just days before I was supposed to have been in Neiderau. Go on... dig the knife in a bit further!

Edited 1 time. Last update at 06-Mar-2008

Dave Mac
reply to 'A newbie question - Max Freezing Level?'
posted Mar-2008

Jan,

Max freezing is when there is frost on your beard.

Min is when the beard frost melts.

Or is it the other way round..?

See you last week in March!

Bennyboy
reply to 'A newbie question - Max Freezing Level?'
posted Mar-2008

Yeah the freezing level is where zero degrees celcius is. Anywhere above it is minus something and anywhere below it is plus something. The lower the freezing level, the better!

Topic last updated on 11-March-2008 at 22:59