Sorta. You can magnify the crystals to see if the hexagonal crystalline structures are still in tact of if they’re broken up into pieces. Imagine the crystal formations on this site https://www.snowcrystals.com and then just seeing fractured pieces in blowing and drifting snow. There’s a reason why those drifts get dense and hard packed.
Van Buren used to hold the old coop record before all of those automated river HADS sites got put in. Non-MWN NH record is -46°F at Pittsburg. I don’t think anyone in NNE has theoretically gotten much colder than -50°F in the last 150 years so toss that -64°F further than DAW.
Yeah…think of those deformation bands where you have different flow trajectories coming together and stretching of the parcels yet we’re still pulling 25:1 at the sfc. It’s not as gusty above the frictional layer either so there’s probably less opportunity for collisions?
+3C 850s with a min of 9F at CON. Not sure I’ve seen it that extreme. lol
But yeah, we’re super dry and mixed right off the BL so there’s some potential for high end inversions.
MOS is really going wild with the radiating after Xmas despite well AN midlevel temps. Seems too aggressive to me, but it’ll be interesting to see how it plays out.