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Old February 11th 16, 08:03 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
Richard Dixon[_3_] Richard Dixon[_3_] is offline
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On Thursday, 11 February 2016 17:55:04 UTC, wrote:

What does #snow mean? Why not just say "snow". Also what on earth is
93jGQCzZHR ? I presume it is a picture of an #chart or something?


Oh for heaven's sake Will, you never used to be this grumpy.

93jGQCzZHR is part of the link to pic.twitter.com/93jGQCzZHR which showed up as a hyperlink on the original posting. It's a link to a picture.

#snow is a hashtag that allows you to view lists any other occurrences of this word. It's actually fairly useful - not in this case - when there are news events happening. For instance during the Paris attacks, people were posting #PorteOuverte to allow people safe houses when attacks were going on.

Or #uksnow is commonly used when people report snow that is use by websites such as uksnowmap.com. I think it's fairly clever and interesting.

Richard