In Scotland there are 421 different words for snow, including Snaw, Spitters, Sneesl, Feefle and Flindrikin. Do you know what graupel is? It's those tiny white snowballs. One can't be sure if they are snow or hail. I'm still not really sure myself. Snow can be so fun to study! Have you ever tried catching it on a glove or cloth and then looking at it through a microscope? That's just what Wilson Bentley did. He was a meteorologist and photographer and he LOVED to photograph snowflakes. He was the first one to get detailed pictures of actual snowflakes! There is a book about him that is a lot of fun to read check it out! Then follow this link for some more fun information about snow. You could make it a "snow day"
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