User talk:Bym231

April 2018
Hello. This is a message to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions, such as the edit you made to Chinook wind, did not appear constructive and has been reverted. Please take some time to familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at our welcome page which also provides further information about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you only meant to make test edits, please use the sandbox for that. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you may leave a message on my talk page. ''Snow does not sublimate, it melts. Are you thinking of dry ice?'' startTerminal (haha wow talk page) 00:22, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

No, I am not thinking of dry ice, I am thinking of snow. Please review the definitions of evaporation and sublimation. Evaporation involves the transition from liquid to vapor, whereas sublimation is the transition of a solid to a vapor. You might also review this authoritative source: https://water.usgs.gov/edu/watercyclesublimation.html From this page you will read this:     "There's more than one way for Mother Nature to get rid of a fresh blanket of snow. The most common way, of course, is by melting-which gives everyone the pleasure of trudging through slush, mud, and water. But in the western U.S., there's a wind called the Chinook, or "snow eater," that vaporizes snow before it even has a chance to melt."

"Chinook winds are westerlies from the Pacific whose moisture gets wrung out as it passes over the Rocky Mountains. Once these winds come down from the mountains onto the high plains, they can be quite mild and extremely dry-as warm as 60 or 70 degrees Fahrenheit -- over 15 Celsius -- with a relative humidity of 10% or less. The air is so dry that when it hits a snowpack, the frozen water evaporates, going directly from the ice to vapor and bypassing the liquid phase entirely. This is called sublimation, and it's a common way for snow to disappear in the arid West."

I stand by my edit, but if you wish to leave incorrect information in the article then so be it. I'm new to Wikipedia editing, but I'm not new to science....