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TRANSCRIPT OF AUDIO
From the Cumberland Gap to the Atlantic Ocean, this is
Virginia Water Radio for the week of January 25, 2016.
MUSIC – 10 sec
This week, as Virginia and much of the eastern United States
experience a major winter storm, that excerpt from “Drive the Cold Winter Away,”
by Timothy Seaman of Williamsburg, set the stage for a winter word whirlwind! We
start with a series of mystery guest
voices. Have a listen for about 15
seconds, and see if you know what all of these voices would be saying in
English. And if you’ve been shoveling,
plowing, or sledding, you probably don’t need a hint!
VOICES - 15 sec
If you guessed snow,
you’re right! You heard the words for
snow in Yiddish, German, Russian, French, Italian, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese,
and Malay. Even within individual
languages, snow can have many names. The
Inuit people of the Arctic region, for example, have different terms for
falling snow, snow that collects on trees, snow on the ground, wind-beaten
snow, drifting snow, and many others.
Snow scientists, too, use different terms to distinguish types of snow crystals,
snowfalls, and snow conditions on the ground.
Columns, plates, needles, stellar crystals, and irregular crystals are
some of the terms used by scientists to describe snowflake types. And can you guess what term encompasses not only
snow and ice on land but all of the frozen water on earth? If you said cryosphere, you’re a snow genius!
Thanks to several Blacksburg friends for lending their voices to this
episode. Thanks also to Timothy Seaman
for permission to use this week’s music, and we close with a few more seconds
of “Drive the Cold Winter Away.”
MUSIC -- 18 sec
For more Virginia water sounds, music, and information, visit
us online at virginiawaterradio.org,
or call us at (540) 231-5463. Virginia
Water Radio is produced by the Virginia Water Resources Research Center, part
of Virginia Tech’s College of Natural Resources and Environment. Thanks to Stewart Scales for his banjo
version of Cripple Creek to open and close the show. In Blacksburg, I’m Alan Raflo, thanking you for listening, and wishing you
health, wisdom, and good water.
AUDIO NOTES AND
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
“Drive the Cold
Winter Away” is a traditional tune performed by Timothy Seaman and Phillip Skeens on the 1998 album
“Celebration of Centuries,” copyright by Timothy Seaman and Pine Wind Music,
used with permission. More information about Mr. Seaman’s music is
available online http://timothyseaman.com/.
Thanks to several Blacksburg friends for participating in
these recordings, made on Jan. 20, 2016.
PHOTOS
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| View from inside an igloo constructed in a Blacksburg, Va., neighborhood, Feb. 15, 2014. |
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| Snow-covered woodland stream channel in Blacksburg, Va., Jan. 24, 2016. |
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| Squirrel tracks in snow in Blacksburg, Va., wooded area, Jan. 24, 2016. |
SOURCES USED IN AUDIO AND FOR MORE INFORMATION
Nolan J. Doesken and
Arthur Judson, The Snow Booklet: A Guide
to the Science, Climatology, and Measurement of Snow in the United States,
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colo., 1997.
D.M. Gray and D.M.
Hale, Handbook of Snow: Principles,
Processes, Management & Use, Blackburn Press, Caldwell, N.J., 1981.
James C. Halfpenny
and Roy Douglas Ozanne, Winter: An
Ecological Handbook, Johnson Books, Boulder, Colo., 1989.
J. Sydney Jones,
“Inuit,” on Countries and Their Cultures Web site, http://www.everyculture.com/multi/Ha-La/Inuit.html.
National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)/National Ocean Service, “What is the
Cryosphere?”, online at http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/cryosphere.html.
For sources of information on snowfall forecasts and
accumulation, please see this Virginia Water Central News Grouper post: Snowfall
Prediction and Accumulation Information and Map Sources for Virginia and
Nationwide, as of January 2016.
RELATED VIRGINIA WATER RADIO EPISODES
All Water Radio episodes are listed by category at the Index
link above (http://www.virginiawaterradio.org/p/index.html). For previous episodes related to
snow and winter, please see the “Weather” category.
SOLS INFORMATION FOR
VIRGINIA TEACHERS
This episode may help with the following Virginia’s 2010 Science
Standards of Learning (SOLs):
Grades K-6 Earth Patterns, Cycles, and Change Theme
2.7 – Weather and seasonal changes affecting plants and
animals.
3.8 – Basic patterns and cycles in nature.
Grades K-6 Interrelationships in Earth/Space Systems Theme
4.6 – weather conditions, phenomena, and measurements.
Grades K-6 Matter Theme
6.5 – properties and characteristics of water.
6.6 – Properties of air (including pressure, temperature,
and humidity) and structure/dynamics of earth’s atmosphere.
Earth
Science Course
ES.12 – weather and climate.
The episode may also help with the following Virginia 2010 English
SOLs:
Reading Theme
8.5 (symbols and figurative language)
10.4 (imagery and other literary devices)
9.4 (imagery and other literary devices)
11.4 (imagery and figures of speech)
