10 Interesting Things You Might Wanna Know About Snow
It's kinda fitting, being it January and all.
It's kinda fitting, being it January and all.
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1. You can’t “trigger” avalanches. YIn movies where the guy sneezes and BOOM-e avalanche. This is completely fictional, avalanches just happen, nothing particularly triggers them.
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2. Snow echoes. Due to the flat snow that’s packed in, sound waves bounce at a high frequency. That means instead of absorbing sound, like most would expect, it actually reflects it, resulting in echoes that can be heard up to a mile away.
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3. The heaviest snowfall in 24 hours occurred in 1921. A whopping 75.8 inches of snow fell from the sky and covered – more like buried – Silver Lake, Colorado in snow in April of 1921.
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4. Snow is not actually white. What you see is not always what you get. Snow isn’t actually white, it’s translucent. It’s the light that shines on the snow that gives it its color – or the color we perceive anyway.
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5. Watermelon snow is toxic. Patches of pink snow that smell like watermelon are bad, very bad. It has pigmented algae growing underneath and needless to say, you shouldn’t be putting toxic algae in your mouth.
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6. Snowflakes really aren’t that pretty. Kids who were born after the 2000s will always remember snowflakes like what they look like in Frozen. Well, as disappointing as this may sound, snowflakes really aren’t that special. They’re basically just a mash of crystals stuck together.
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7. Each snowflake holds a story. Each snowflake holds particles that could pretty much be from anywhere in the world.
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8 The biggest snowflake ever fell down from the sky in 1887, and no snowflake has been bigger since. This 15-inch monster fell in Fort Keogh, Montana.
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9. Alaska has the whitest Christmas in the US. Alaska gets an average of 326 inches of snow each year.
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10. Snow can make people crazy. We end this with a shock. People who are surrounded by snow for an extended period of time can develop something called Pibloktoq, more commonly known as Arctic Hysteria.
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