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[Kalameer]

I suppose I should ask...does the tree force the removal of the snowcap to the north?

[atpollard]

I suppose I should ask...does the tree force the removal of the snowcap to the north?

This was the easiest to answer, so I chose it first ...
... not if it snows along the northern edge of the branches.

For example, a tree growing under North America from the arctic circle (canada) in the north to mississippi in the south would still have year round ice covering its northernmost branches, coniferous forests and tundra north of the great trunk, and moss covered cypress swamps driping from its southern most branches.