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) classic Frank Zappa song “Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow.” In fact, it is an excerpt from a 27 January 1902 newspaper article from Grand Haven, Michigan, describing “the unusual phenomenon of a fall of snow of a dull yellowish tint, which covered the ground to a depth of one-fifth of an inch.” A discussion that followed the excerpt in Monthly Weather Review concluded that it was loess, a fine-grain, yellow-gray sediment, that was carried aloft by wind and mixed with the snow, giving it its distinctive
) classic Frank Zappa song “Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow.” In fact, it is an excerpt from a 27 January 1902 newspaper article from Grand Haven, Michigan, describing “the unusual phenomenon of a fall of snow of a dull yellowish tint, which covered the ground to a depth of one-fifth of an inch.” A discussion that followed the excerpt in Monthly Weather Review concluded that it was loess, a fine-grain, yellow-gray sediment, that was carried aloft by wind and mixed with the snow, giving it its distinctive
next section). Once the river turns westward, it cuts deeply through the middle of an elevated mass of uplifted strata that attains heights of nearly 2300 m on the South Rim and 2844 m on the North Rim. The North Rim is the southern edge of the Kaibab Plateau, which in winter has a permanent snow cover. At the bottom of the canyon below the South Rim is Phantom Ranch, a camping facility run by the NPS. As discussed in the next section, Phantom Ranch was used to collect surface and upper-air data
next section). Once the river turns westward, it cuts deeply through the middle of an elevated mass of uplifted strata that attains heights of nearly 2300 m on the South Rim and 2844 m on the North Rim. The North Rim is the southern edge of the Kaibab Plateau, which in winter has a permanent snow cover. At the bottom of the canyon below the South Rim is Phantom Ranch, a camping facility run by the NPS. As discussed in the next section, Phantom Ranch was used to collect surface and upper-air data
