A New Kind of Snow

Remember that old myth about the eskimos having 100 names for snow? I'm starting to believe it. In the last snow we had, I experienced a whole new type of snow. It was just at the very beginning of the snow fall, and we were outside cutting firewood. It started to snow, but it was not flakes. It consisted of what looked like little Ys or the split ends of hair. After much Google searching, I finally found a good picture of it. These are known as needle snowflakes. Apparently these types of "flakes" form when the temperature is between 14 and 28 and the moisture level is high. That pretty much describes Rockland. Interesting that I've never noticed this type before.