Snow! :eek:

[Duck on Wheels]

DuckonWheels... what are the other words you have for types of snow? Those names for specific types of snow fascinate me. I was happy because I learned what graupel was a few weeks ago!

(Around here we just have have three kinds: sleet, ice, and the rare one: real snow)

K.

Hmmm, I'm not a snow expert, but I do know a few snow varieties: puddersnø (powder), kornsnø (grainy stuff), sludd (mix of rain and snow), kjerringer (literally "old ladies", also called "filler" (rags), which is big broad wet flakes of snow, and results in a variety of slapps), fokksnø (the fine powdery kind that blows into hard-packed drifts), skaresnø (the kind with a thin crust of ice on top that can really cut you up if you fall on your face on your way down a slope). People also refer to snow conditions by the color of ski wax that suits, e.g. a combination of snow type, air temperature etc. that calls for blue Swix or purple Swix or red "klister" and so on.