| Dry air and
low humidity is very helpful to snowmaking and actually is
as important as temperature.
The combination of humidity and temperature
is called "Wet Bulb". It allows, through evaporative
cooling, more water to be converted into snow than does moist
air of the same temperature. Believe it or not, sometimes
a resort can make better snow at 28 degrees and low humidity
then at 21 degrees and high humidity.
In fact we have made snow as high as 38
degrees before although to be completely honest you are not
making too much snow then and it really isn't worth the cost. |