If the ground is cool enough that the snow isn’t melting, there’s already enough of a deficit of heat in the ground that the water, even if it’s pretty hot, isn’t going to have enough heat in it to thaw the ground as well as the snow. So even if the individual water crystals in the snow melt, the water will end up as a sheet of ice when the heat it in gets transferred into the ground.
For anyone who hasn’t lived in an area that’s historically had regular snowfall at this point in the year, the first few snowfalls don’t “stick” specifically because the ground is still cooling down. So the first day with snow on the ground is rarely the first day with snowfall.
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The water will just freeze into more ice if the temp is 32F (0C) or lower, which it was there this morning.
If the ground is cool enough that the snow isn’t melting, there’s already enough of a deficit of heat in the ground that the water, even if it’s pretty hot, isn’t going to have enough heat in it to thaw the ground as well as the snow. So even if the individual water crystals in the snow melt, the water will end up as a sheet of ice when the heat it in gets transferred into the ground.
For anyone who hasn’t lived in an area that’s historically had regular snowfall at this point in the year, the first few snowfalls don’t “stick” specifically because the ground is still cooling down. So the first day with snow on the ground is rarely the first day with snowfall.
It's freezing