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Snow isn’t actually white and science can prove it

Fresh snow can look like a blank sheet of paper, so bright it almost hurts to stare at in midday sun. Yet at the microscopic level, those flakes are not white at all, and the color we think we see is ...
Forbes

Why Didn’t It Snow? Answers For Every Angry Winter Weather Commenter

Photo by: John Nacion/STAR MAX/IPx 2020 12/17/20 A view of snow-covered cars along a Flushing, Queens street on December 17, 2020 in New York, the morning after a powerful winter storm hit the US ...
The Conversation

We couldn’t have the Beijing Olympics without snow machines. How do they work, and what’s the environmental cost?

Snow machines have exploited the laws of thermodynamics to paint the slopes of Beijing white for this year’s Winter Olympics. Beijing might seem like an odd place for the winter games. The city ...
The New Yorker

What Happens When the Snow Doesn’t Melt?

This past week in New York City, fifteen inches of snow fell and more than twenty-two hundred snowplows pushed it away. Twelve thousand miles of sidewalk were shovelled. Two hundred and nine million ...