Snow
Snow is a form of precipitation in the form of crystalline water ice, consisting of snowflakes that fall from clouds. Since snow is composed of small ice particles, it is a granular material. It has an open and therefore soft structure, unless packed by external pressure. Snowflakes come in a variety of sizes and shapes. Types which fall in the form of a ball due to melting and refreezing, rather than a flake, are known as graupel, ice pellets or snow grains. Snowfall amount and its related liquid equivalent precipitation amount are determined using a variety of different rain gauges.
Read more about Snow.
Famous quotes containing the word snow:
“Rigidly they
Persisted, linked, through lengths and breadths
Of time. Snow fell, undated.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“Each person sweeps the snow before his own door, and never minds the frost on another family’s roof.”
—Chinese proverb.
“The snow had begun in the gloaming,
And busily all the night
Had been heaping field and highway
With a silence deep and white.”
—James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)