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Death Cookies Ice chips frozen to the snow left by grooming machines.

Mashed Potato Snow Wet, heavy snow you can stand a shovel in.

Packed Powder Powder snow packed down by traffic or grooming.

Powder Dry, cold snow best for winter sports.

Sugar Snow Crumbly ice crystals.

White Asphalt The layer of snow made by snow making machines under the natural snow.

 

Other ways to describe snow : ballroom, boiler pot, buffed snow, corn snow, champagne powder, chowder, cold smoke, corduroy, glop, wind slab, fluff, breakable crust, sierra cement, & crud

 

Inuit Words for Snow

 

Annui Falling snow

Api Snow not wet touched by wind

Det Thtok Snow so deep snowshoes are required

Natagonaq Snow surface of rough and coarse particles

Qali Snow that sticks to the branches of trees

Saluma Roaq Snow surface of very fine particles

Siqoq Snow blowing along the ground

Upski Snow changed by wind into a firm pile

 

Eskimo Words for Snow

ah-ki-lu-kak Soft snow

ah-put Snow in general

i-gluk-sak Snow house

i-yak-go-vak-jvak Snowflake

kag-mak-sak Snow used for insulating snow houses

ka-hik Snow is falling

ki-mik-vik Snow that falls evenly

ku-ah-li-vuk Snow that freezes when it falls

mang-uk-tuk Snow that gets softer

ma-sak Wet snow

msu- yak Deep and soft snow

piek-tuk Drifting snow

pu-ka Snow that is like salt and doesn't stick

sa-ki-ut-vuj Snow that falls straight down

 

Slang Snow Terms

 

Dis Snowlusionment When schools close due to forecasts for snow, but no snow falls.

High Drift When wind blows snow above the height of a human.

Low Drift When the wind blows snow up to a few feet high.

Peter snow Snow so compacted that it makes snow roads and runways in the arctic.

Snirt What residents of the Dakotas call a mixture of snow and dirt that blows off the prairies.

Snow Cover When 2 centimeters of snow lies on the ground.

Snow Day A term used by people who remove snow in cities when during 24 hours at least 2.54 centimeters of snow falls.

Yooper Scooper A wide snow shovel with sides that is popular in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

Whiteout When reflections from the sky and snow create a blinding glare.

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