Snow Making
What we want our guests to know
First of all let me say that, with very few exceptions, man
made snow is not made in a big refrigerator, it is
atomized or very tiny drops of water blown into the air to freeze.
Making snow is accomplished by having the
following ingredients
- A 28
degree wet bulb temperature (wet bulb temp is a combination of the
temperature and the humidity). Chances are if it is 28 degrees at your
house,
Yawgoo
Valley
is making snow
- The
colder the temperature, the more snow we can make. For example, at 28
degrees, a snow gun converts about 30 gallons of water per minute into snow.
However, at 10 degrees that same gun coverts up to 150 gallons per minute or
five times the volume of water into snow.
- Machine
made snow is actually a frozen ice pellet atomized by a pocket of air.
Because of this, it is five times denser than natural snow. To put it
another way, a foot of machine made snow is equivalent to five feet of
natural snow. This makes it much more resistant to warm air and rain. Also,
the surface allows for faster conditions than natural snow.
- Consequently,
after a warm or rainy day, you will find Yawgoo’s slopes still snow
covered even though there is none in your backyard.
If you want to know more click below
How
Stuff Works
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