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Speaker 1: Is it possible to make snow in your backyard like
Speaker 1: a ski resort makes snow on a mountaintop. If you
Speaker 1: live in a climate that's cold enough, then the answer
Speaker 1: is yes. You need a place where it gets down
Speaker 1: to twenty degrees fahrenheit or colder at night and preferably
Speaker 1: during the daytime as well. But if you live in
Speaker 1: that kind of climate, then it's possible to make snow
Speaker 1: in your backyard in two different ways. The first way
Speaker 1: involves compressed air. The idea is to create for yourself
Speaker 1: a nozzle that has pressurized water coming in and mixing
Speaker 1: with compressed air from a fairly large air compressor. The
Speaker 1: compressed air has the effect of blowing the water out
Speaker 1: as a fine from the end of the nozzle, but
Speaker 1: it has another effect as well. As it expands, it
Speaker 1: releases heat, cooling the water, and then as it hits
Speaker 1: the cold air, it freezes into tiny granules or droplets
Speaker 1: of ice, which fall to the ground and look like snow.
Speaker 1: If you poke around on Google, it's fairly easy to
Speaker 1: find instructions for building these kind of nozzles. They're not complicated.
Speaker 1: They're made out of little pieces of galvanized pipe that
Speaker 1: you might buy at a place like home depot or lows.
Speaker 1: You put them together. You have one input for the air,
Speaker 1: a t connection, and another input for the water. They
Speaker 1: mix in the pipe and then blow out an in
Speaker 1: cap in which you drill a small hole. Most people
Speaker 1: who are doing this build three or four of these
Speaker 1: nozzles and pump snow out for you know, hours or
Speaker 1: days at a time to build up a layer in
Speaker 1: their backyard. The second technique is to use a very
Speaker 1: large and powerful fan that creates a blast of air
Speaker 1: out of an air nozzle, and then to arrange misters
Speaker 1: around that air nozzle. The air from the fan blasts
Speaker 1: the droplets from the mists upward, and those droplets freeze
Speaker 1: in mid air and fall to the ground. Usually you
Speaker 1: can create a larger volume of snow this way, but
Speaker 1: you need a lower temperature for it to work. Now,
Speaker 1: what if you live in Florida. You're not going to
Speaker 1: be making snow yourself because it doesn't get cold enough
Speaker 1: at night. But you still do have an option. There
Speaker 1: are companies that will bring huge blocks of ice to
Speaker 1: your house in a truck with a crusher. They'll crush
Speaker 1: that ice in defined particles and then spray it over
Speaker 1: your yard. It'll last, you know, a day or two,
Speaker 1: depending on how warm it is. It is a way
Speaker 1: to create the look of snow in your yard in
Speaker 1: a warmer climate. For moral This and thousands of other topics.
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