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colored snow

seed clouds with food coloring
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The place: Iowa City, Iowa.

The date: Nov. 20, 2010.

The ocassion: The undefeated Iowa Hawkeyes college football team and their black and gold dressed crowd are putting their 10-0 record on the line against the visiting 10-0 Ohio State Buckeyes who are wearing their traditional scarlet and grey.

The forcast projects very cold weather and even a healthy amount of snow.

The snow begins to fall right before kickoff, but to the crowd's shock it is not the softly falling white flakes they've seen their entire lives, it's Buckeye red snowflakes beginning to coat Kinnick Stadium and its fans.

Those dastardly Buckeye fans have seeded the clouds above Iowa City with red dye # 40 and now the crowd and field are sporting their own home colors!

Tune in next week to see who won the battle in the scarlet snow.

(It may seem far fetched, but something like this actually happened in Buffalo, NY in Jan., 2010).

Zimmy, Jul 22 2010

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       Is this like when it's raining men?
blissmiss, Jul 22 2010
  

       + this would be nice for other occasions, too!
xandram, Jul 22 2010
  

       well my prediction is, unfortunately, Ohio State wins again. (Go Navy)
dentworth, Jul 22 2010
  

       This could mean the end of snow blindness on ski slopes.
phundug, Jul 22 2010
  

       I am withholding my bun until you figure out how to make rainbow snow.   

       meh, who am I kidding? (+)   

       Could stain clothes, [+] anyway
xxobot, Jul 23 2010
  

       [Dentworth], Go Navy from me, too!   

       I actually really like the triple option. I didn't much like it about a year ago, though.   

       -Go Navy! Beat Notre Dame again! Beat Army, too (my grandpa was Navy - the other was Army, but if they had Air Force back then, he'd've been AF)
Zimmy, Jul 23 2010
  

       Aaaaargh! My clairvoyant hat went flat! Iowa lost to Arizona.
Zimmy, Sep 23 2010
  

       Stoopid badgers. We don't need no stinkin badgers. The snowstorm came three or four weeks. Later. Than I envisioned.
Zimmy, Dec 06 2010
  

       I dunno, Zimmy. Water tends to exclude solutes as it freezes. You might get white snow followed by pink rain.
MaxwellBuchanan, Dec 08 2010
  

       // stinkin //   

       Sp. "Steenkeeng"   

       // white snow followed by pink rain //   

       Still infinitely better than a golden shower, Shirley ?
8th of 7, Dec 08 2010
  

       Sp. Coloured
Twizz, Dec 09 2010
  
      
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