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The following terms are consistent with the classifications of United States National Weather Service and the Meteorological Service of Canada: [3] Kazimianec, Jelena (2013). "Snow in the Russian Language Picture of the World". Respectus Philologicus. 24 (29): 121–130. doi: 10.15388/RESPECTUS.2013.24.29.10. Irregular (I): Snow crystals include ice particles, rimed particles, broken pieces from a crystal, and miscellaneous crystals.

Geol 33 Environmental Geomorphology". Hofstra University. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016 . Retrieved 19 December 2017. A blizzard is a violent winter storm, lasting at least three hours, which combines subfreezing temperatures and strong winds laden with blowing snow that reduces visibility to less than 0.40 kilometers (0.25 miles). Lella Erludóttir (13 September 2020). "Icelandic oddities: 85 words for snow". Hey Iceland . Retrieved 31 January 2021. Ice crystals (also diamond dust) – Suspended in the atmosphere as needles, columns or plates at very low temperatures in a stable atmosphere. [15]Wind slab – A layer of relatively stiff, hard snow formed by deposition of wind blown snow on the leeward side of a ridge or other sheltered area. Wind slabs can form over weaker, softer freshly fallen powder snow, creating an avalanche hazard on steep slopes. [32] Megadunes are giant dunes of snow in Antarctica composed of large snow crystals measuring up to 2 centimeters (3/4 inch) across. There is a long history of northern and alpine cultures describing snow in their different languages, including Inupiat, Russian and Finnish. [1] However, the lore about the multiplicity of Eskimo words for snow originates from controversial scholarship on a topic that is difficult to define, because of the structures of the languages involved. [2] Classification of snow events [ edit ]

Lopez, Barry; Gwartney, Debra (14 April 2011). Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape. Trinity University Press. p.136. ISBN 9781595340887. Germ (G): Crystals may be a minute column, hexagonal plate, stellar crystal, assemblage of plates, irregular germ, or other skeletal form.A snowburst is a very intense shower of snow, often of short duration, that greatly restricts visibility and produces periods of rapid snow accumulation. powder is commonly seen sprinkled on baked goods and sweet treats as a powdering white sugar finishing. Seasonal snow refers to snow that accumulates during one season or snow that lasts for only one season.

Different parts of the world have their own avalanche classifications. In the United States, a number is given to rate avalanche destructiveness, where volumes and impact pressures go up exponentially like earthquake magnitude scales. Avalanches range in size from one to five, or low to extreme, with one unlikely to cause damage or bury a person. Any avalanche above a two has the potential to kill someone. The volume grows from 100 cubic meters (131 cubic yards) to 100,000 cubic meters (131,000 cubic yards) in terms of size. Berit, Inga; Öje, Danell (2013). "Traditional ecological knowledge among Sami reindeer herders in northern Sweden about vascular plants grazed by reindeer". Rangifer. 32 (1): 1–17. doi: 10.7557/2.32.1.2233. Not surprisingly, in languages and cultures where snow is common, having different words for distinct weather conditions and types of snowfall is desirable for efficient communication. [44] Finnish, [45] Icelandic, [46] Norwegian, [47] Russian, [48] [49] and Swedish [50] have multiple words and phrases relating to snow and snowfall, in some cases dozens or even hundreds, depending upon how one counts. Plate (P): Snow crystals may be a regular crystal in one plane, a plane crystal with extensions ( dendrites), a crystal with irregular number of branches, crystal with 12 branches, malformed crystal, radiating assemblage of plane branches.

Warren, Israel Perkins (1863). Snowflakes: a chapter from the book of nature. Boston: American Tract Society. p.164 . Retrieved 25 November 2016. Blizzard – Characterized by sustained wind or frequent gusts of 56 kilometres per hour (35mph) or greater and falling or blowing snow that frequently lowers visibility to less than 400 metres (0.25mi) over a period of 3 hours or longer. [4] Bishop, Michael P.; Björnsson, Helgi; Haeberli, Wilfried; Oerlemans, Johannes; Shroder, John F.; Tranter, Martyn (2011). Singh, Vijay P.; Singh, Pratap; Haritashya, Umesh K. (eds.). Encyclopedia of Snow, Ice and Glaciers. Springer Science & Business Media. p.1253. ISBN 978-90-481-2641-5.

is most commonly used as a dressing due to its ability to remain on hot or warm goods, even in moist environments. It is considered a superior topping and holds up under plastic and ice cream. Why and How to Study a Snowcover – contains an extensive taxonomy of show terminology borrowed from Inuit and some other languages Cornice – Wind blowing over a ridge can create a compacted snowdrift with an overhanging top, called a cornice. Cornices present a hazard to mountaineers, because they are prone to break off. [26] Ice approximates hexagonal symmetry in most of its atmospheric manifestations of a crystal lattice as snow. Temperature and vapor pressure determine the growth of the hexagonal crystal lattice in different forms that include columnar growth in the axis perpendicular to the hexagonal plane to form snow crystals. [14] Ukichiro Nakaya developed a crystal morphology diagram, relating crystal shape to the temperature and moisture conditions under which they formed. [21] Magono and Lee devised a classification of freshly formed snow crystals that includes 80 distinct shapes. They are summarized in the following principal snow crystal categories (with symbol): [22]Snow most frequently appears white, but deep snow can act as a filter, absorbing more of one color and less of another. Deep snow tends to absorb red light, reflecting the blue tints often seen in snow. — Credit: Pixabay The name says it all. You’ll get crust when the sun and wind melt the top layer of powder and the cold then makes it freeze into a solid again. The crust will then sit upon softer powder snow giving one hell of an interesting ride! If you get soft crust then you’ll be able to break through it and ride the powder underneath but if the crust is tough, you’ll be riding the icy treat that no one enjoys. However there’s an unhappy medium in all of this. The crust can be patchy. You’ll be riding through some soft crust and smash your shins right into a frozen piece of hard crust, leaving you in agony and crying out for your mother. Lake-effect snow (also ocean-effect snow) – Occurs when relatively cold air flows over warm lake (or ocean) water to cause localized, convective snow bands. [6] [7]