Snow covered mountains above Esteli
Submitted by Nicabuff on Wed, 2008/12/03 - 20:08.
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Found this picture on a google book: The Book of History: A History of All Nations from the Earliest Times to the Present, with Over 8,000 Illustrations By James Bryce Bryce, Holland Thompson, William Matthew Flinders Petrie Published by The Grolier society, 1915 Item notes: v. 14 Original from the New York Public Library Digitized Oct 30, 2007
link: http://books.google.com/books?id=iDwQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA5729&dq=snow+esteli&e...
Oh, well . . .
Oh well, I guess with global warming we won't have that to worry about anymore. But just how often has it ever snowed in the mountains above Esteli? Once every 500 years, or is the picture just plain bogus? Surely there is not enough altitude in those mountains for that to happen very often.
O quantum est in rebus inane! / A palabras necias, oídos sordos.
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I don't know
It could be that the climate was cooler back then 1915 and prior, I've read that even wheat was grown in Esteli and Somoto in the past so that's an indication. It could very well be that it snowed and it was a rare occurrence (every 500 yrs like you say), it could also be hail. The mountains do look like those of Esteli's western ridge though. I got the picture from a actual book scanned into google books I referenced on my first post.
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