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Almost every winter, snow surrounds us. We look at it, walk on it, enjoy it, but rarely do we think about how it is. The snowflakes are so amazing… Today we are going to share with you some interesting information about the first snowfall we liked in our country.
People have learned to create snowflakes artificially.
More than half of the people on earth have never seen real snow in their lives.
According to the scientists, they never found two identical pieces of snow during the study.
Snow reflects up to 90 percent of sunlight.
The largest piece of snow ever discovered was 38 centimeters in diameter.
Snow flakes are 95 percent air.
Snow that is high in the mountains and in the polar regions can turn red or pink due to algae, sometimes called ‘snow chlamydia’. This snow is like a watermelon.
The speed of a piece of snow falling to the ground is less than a kilometer per hour.
There is snow not only on Earth, but also on Mars.
Due to the deformation of the snowflake crystals, the crystal becomes visible.
In 1949, it snowed in the Sahara. However, it melted almost immediately.
There is a museum of snowflakes in Japan.
January 19 is World Snow Day.
There are about 180 words for snow, ice and their species in the language of the Sam people living in Finland. There are more than 20 words in the Eskimo language meaning snow.
One cubic meter of snow contains more than three hundred million pieces of snow.
Pieces of snow falling on the surface of the water make a high-frequency sound that is very unpleasant to fish. People don’t hear that sound.
Even in hot places like Ecuador and Hawaii, it snows. It is located at the top of the mountains.
There is a myth in Japan that Japanese snow is different from foreign snow.
The first photograph of snow under a microscope was taken in 1885. American photographer Winston Bentley spent 46 years achieving success.