Oh, nothing, just the fact that blossoming plants can use thermogenesis to be up to 27F hotter than their environment to melt snow…

chuck @crowcialist on Twitter

Until I read this Hal Borland passage a few days ago I never realized/noticed that blossoming plants melt the snow, and it’s because that act generates a bunch of heat

(1) chuck 🏔 on X: “Until I read this Hal Borland passage a few days ago I never realized/noticed that blossoming plants melt the snow, and it’s because that act generates a bunch of heat https://t.co/zrZ7K4GfdX” / X

See

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermogenic_plant

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21205176/