Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Types of snow

Wikipedia list the following "types of snow on the ground". If you really must you can look up what they all mean here. I made up one of them. In fact, bearing in mind that it's Wikipedia, maybe all of them are made up.

Artificial snow
Blowing snow
Chopped powder
Corn
Cornice
Crud
Crust
Depth hoar
Finger Drift
Heavy crud
Ice
Firn
Packed Powder
Packing snow
Penitentes
Pillow Drift
Powder
Quinsy
Slush
Snirt (not to be confused with snert)
Snowdrift
Surface Hoar
Watermelon snow
Wind slab

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