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Show ALL KINDS OF SNOW, LITERALLY! To most people to whom snow only means a job of snovelling, it may help a bit to learn that scien-tists scien-tists classify snow into at least 12 different varieties. Let's start with falling snow. It is precipitation frozen into some type of crystalline form. When it hits the ground it becomes fallen snow. At first fallen snow is powder pow-der snow, soft, fluffy and feathery aad cot unchanged from its in the- air condition. Skiers look for it. But powder snow, if it comes to earth at very low temperatures, may form sand snow on which neither nei-ther a ski nor sled will glide. Wild snow, is another form of powder snow which falls in a complete calm at low temperature and is immensely immense-ly unstable. Following first contact snow enters en-ters the stage of settling snow. It becomes settled snow. |