@jxh2154: Okay, sorry for the delay, didn't quite mean to...

jxh2154
2011-02-19T11:19:53-05:00

Okay, sorry for the delay, didn't quite mean to disappear for a week. I need to check these forums more frequently (though I usually hit email at least once a day) but it's been really hard lately. Hooray for three-day weekends though.

I guess at the moment I'm feeling swayed by NWF's lake/rain example. I don't think it's a perfect comparison, because "lake" or "ocean" or "pond" or "puddle" are immediately intuitive concepts understood as distinct from "rain" and nobody would think to tag them as each other. The same is not as immediately true of "snow" and "snowing". When solid precipitation (snowing, hailing) reaches the ground it's still called snow or hail, while liquid precipitation (raining) hitting the ground is no longer called rain. I wonder where sleet comes in... and maybe it depends on the size of the hail?

Isn't language fun?

But even so, I think I'd like to keep them separate tags per NWF's suggestion. I would think quite a large number of posts would have both, but not all. The only other real alternative was ground_snow but I can't bring myself to embrace that tag for whatever reason.