- More snow facts in the middle of the summer.
Did you read Snow Fun Facts For Christmas in July Vibes: Part One? Because this is part two.
- Snow can appear in a wide variety of colors because of dust, pollution and fresh-water algae turning snow black, orange or even blue.
- The Inuit people have 50 words for snow. Did you know this snow fun fact?
- Igloos use only body heat to warm them and can be more than
100 degrees warmer than outside. - The Scots language has 421 terms related to snow like ‘skelf’ (a large snowflake), ‘spitters’ (small drops of driving snow) and ‘unbrak’ (the beginning of a thaw).
- Snowfields are places that are covered with snow year-round, like mountaintops.
- 63” of snow fell in Georgetown, Colorado on December 4th, 1913.
- n Mars, there are sudden and violent snowstorms throughout their summer season.
- Most flakes fall at speeds of one to four miles per hour, depending on the size and mass of the snowflake and the environmental conditions that it’s falling in.
- The highest snowfall in the United States in 24 hours fell in Silver Lake, Colorado in 1921 with a total of 75.8 inches of snow that day. Did you know this as one of the snow fun facts?
- The world’s largest snowflake was recorded at 15 inches across and 8 inches thick in Fort Keogh, Montana in the United States on January 28th, 1887.
- Japanese macaques are called “snow monkeys” because they’ve been seen playing with snowballs.
- Freshly fallen snow absorbs sound waves, making everything seem quieter and that’s why everything seems more quiet, because it is.
- It takes around an one hour for a snowflake to reach the ground.
- It’s possible for snow to fall with warm air as high as 50 degrees as long as the environmental conditions are perfect.
- Snow can cause “snow blindness” because of the ultraviolet radiation it reflects, meaning you should protect your eyes with prolonged activity in the snow like skiing or other snow activities.
- Snow has never been reported in Key West, Florida.
- It can be too warm to snow, but it’s never too cold to snow.
- Snow leopards find their habitat in the snowfields of mountaintops.
- Snow is just one form of precipitation along with drizzle, rain, sleet, graupel, and hail. Did you know these as snow fun facts?
- Chionophobia is the fear of snow and it comes from the Greek word “chion,” meaning snow.
- When it snows with temperatures above freezing, the temperature drops. If the snow is falling heavily, the temperature will quickly drop to around 32 degrees due to both evaporation and melting, which are both cooling processes.
- Monkeys have snowball fights.
- Snow is a great insulator because it is up to 95% trapped air. For this reason, animals burrow into the snow and hibernate. winter in order to hibernate.
- The world’s largest snow ball fight was on January 12, 2013 in Seattle. A total of 5834 people all joined in on one giant snowball fight.
- The Common Council in Syracuse, New York passed a states that any more snowball fights before Christmas Eve was illegal.
- Graupel is a soft version of hail.
- Light and fluffy snow is often referred to as ‘powder’.
- The most snow to ever fall in one year fell in Mount Rainier in Washington in 1971. The snowfall totaled 102 feet of snow in one year.
- The largest, heaviest snowflakes can reach speeds up to 9 mph while flying through the air.
- As the climate warms, the snow cover on some mountaintops has been shrinking, especially near the equator.
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