- Date
- 2005-02
- Kind
- Publication
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- publicationenvironmentsciencerecreationwildlifecommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The February 2005 Beaver Beacon’s “Snow Dust” feature describes Lois Williams’s cross-country skiing on Beaver Island during the winter of 2004 and explains how temperature and humidity shape snow crystals. It connects the dry, powdery snow to platelike crystals and the underlying science of snow formation.
Evidence limits
This is a newspaper nature feature and accessible science explanation, not a formal weather record or independent snow-crystal study.
Sources
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Sources
- Beaver Beacon, February 2005, "Snow Dust."Lois Williams combines a January 2004 cross-country skiing account on the Donegal Bay Trail with a plain-language explanation of snow crystals, water content, ice nuclei, and platelike and columnar crystal forms. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2005-02_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the nature and snow-science feature.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2005-02_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Beacon explains the island's powdery winter snow as Snow Dust, 2005”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-snow-dust-feature-2005/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, February 2005, "Snow Dust." (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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