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frozen origami where no two pieces ever agree on a design
means Soft white crystals of frozen water that fall from clouds and blanket the ground in cold weather.
from From Old English 'snāw,' part of a deep Germanic family — German 'Schnee,' Dutch 'sneeuw' — all tracing back to a reconstructed Proto-Indo-European root '*sneigwh-,' meaning to snow. That same ancient root surfaces in Latin 'nix' (snow), the source of words like 'niveous,' and in Greek 'nipha.' In short: nearly every European tongue has been muttering some version of this word at the falling sky for thousands of years.
- crystal shape
- always six-sided, dictated by water molecule geometry
- sound damper
- fresh snow absorbs sound, muffling the world
- color trick
- it's actually translucent, scattering light to look white
- deep packs
- compressed snow becomes blue glacier ice over centuries
- falling speed
- a flake drifts down at roughly walking pace
for instance
mount baker 1998-99 season — cascade range resort received 1,140 inches of snow in one winter, world record