Unusual facts about the winter, about which You did not know

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.

        See also: Giant man-made locks-the maze of ice





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