Sewer Plant Helps Create Snow For Small Slice Of Pa. Town
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — A sewer plant helped create a winter wonderland for a 3-square-mile area in central Pennsylvania.
The National Weather Service in State College says a layer of dense fog mixed with condensation from a local sewer plant overnight Monday, creating a dusting of light snow in a small section east of State College.
Even though the area is under high pressure, a localized area of light snow fell overnight just to the east of State...
Posted by US National Weather Service State College PA on Monday, December 7, 2015
The snow fell over roughly 3 square miles near the Nittany Mall.
The weather service calls the process a "microscale event" — too isolated to be captured by local weather reporting stations.
The dusting was a rare, if brief, winterscape for a region in the midst of an unseasonably warm and snowless fall.
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