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frozen water performing a slow, silent invasion that somehow makes everyone forgive the cold
means The descent of snow from the sky, or the total amount of snow that has come down over a given period.
from A plain compound of two old Germanic words: 'snow,' from Old English 'snāw' (with cousins across the Germanic family and ultimately a Proto-Indo-European root for snow, related to Latin 'nix' and Greek 'nipha'), and 'fall,' from Old English 'feallan,' to drop or descend. So the word is exactly what it says — snow, falling — a literal pairing that needed no embellishment.
- flake uniqueness
- no two identical, but plenty of near-twins exist
- silence trick
- fresh snow absorbs sound between its packed crystals
- record dump
- one storm dropped 75 inches in a single day
- slow descent
- flakes fall around 1 to 4 mph
- ten-to-one
- ten inches of snow melts to one inch water
lake effect snow buffalo — buffalo, ny receives 95+ inches annually from lake ontario, creating extreme lake-effect snowstorms
mount baker washington — mount baker ski resort recorded 1,140 inches in 1998-1999, the world single-season snowfall record
aomori japan — aomori city, japan averages 312 inches per year, one of the snowiest inhabited cities on earth