1. Eskimos use 24 words to describe snow in its various States. The Saami to identify and describe snow in all its existing 41 use the word.
2. Just a couple of centuries ago snowman people do not for fun, and to propitiate the evil forces of Winter.
3. Snow avalanches down from the mountains with the speed of high-speed trains – from 80 to 110 km/h, but larger avalanches can reach speeds of, the boundary of which is 360 km/h, much faster than race cars "Formulas-1".
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4. The most famous big snowflake, which turned out not just to catch but also to measure, had a diameter more than 12 cm.
5. Fixed case 30 APR 1944 in Moscow when he fell incredibly strange snow, snowflakes form almost the size of a palm of the person was similar to ostrich feathers.
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