Thursday, December 17, 2009

White Christmas!

Thundersnow
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Thundersnow is a thunderstorm than has snow reaching the surface instead of rain. Usually thunder and lightening are more commonly observed with warm season thunderstorms.


Rime snow
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Rime snow is usually firm and crunchy. Rime snows forms on the top of other snow in very extreme weather.

Watermelon snow
^ Watermelon snow is usually pink in color and on the top of mountains in California or Nevada.

Firn snow
^ Firn snow is snow that has been left over from past seasons and has been crystalized.

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