• The largest snowflake on record measured 38cm wide and 20 cm thick • The average snowflake has an average top speed of 3.1 miles per hour or 1.7 metres per second • They are always hexagonal, but the majority are not symetrical • An average snowflake is made up of 180 billion molecules of water • Snow is not white. Snow is actually clear and colourless • Around 12% of the world’s surface is covered in snow • The snowiest winter of the 20th century in the United Kingdom was 1947 • On average across the UK, there’s only 16.5 days a year when snow is on the ground • Snow costs the UK economy £500m a day 80% of all the freshwater on earth is frozen as ice or snow Chionophobia is the fear of snow REFERENCES: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/weather/4434773/Snow-Britain-10-facts-about-snow.html http://snowbrains.com/10-interesting-facts-about-snow/ http://unofficialnetworks.com/2013/08/10-snow-facts-you-may-not-know http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/learning/snow/snow-in-the-uk http://news.sky.com/story/1039900/snow-costs-uk-economy-500m-a-day www.kinetica.co.uk The science of Snow The UK gets on average 33 days of snow fall or sleet a year The snowiest place in the UK is Banffshire in Scotland, with 63.8 days of snow or sleet falling a year Cornwall is least likely to get snow, with an average of only 10.2 days of snow or sleet falling per year Mt. Baker ski area in Wahington State has the world record for snowfall at 1,140 inches • Enough snow fell in Britain on February 2nd for everyone in the country to make a quarter of a million snowballs each
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• The largest snowflake on record measured 38cm wide and 20 cm thick
• The average snowflake has an average top speed of 3.1 miles per hour or 1.7 metres per second
• They are always hexagonal, but the majority are not symetrical
• An average snowflake is made up of 180 billion molecules of water
• Snow is not white. Snow is actually clear and colourless
• Around 12% of the world’s surface is covered in snow
• The snowiest winter of the 20th century in the United Kingdom was 1947
• On average across the UK, there’s only 16.5 days a year when snow is on the ground
• Snow costs the UK economy £500m a day
80% of all the freshwater on earth
is frozen as ice or snow
Chionophobia is the fear of snow
REFERENCES:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/weather/4434773/Snow-Britain-10-facts-about-snow.html
http://snowbrains.com/10-interesting-facts-about-snow/
http://unofficialnetworks.com/2013/08/10-snow-facts-you-may-not-know
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/learning/snow/snow-in-the-uk
http://news.sky.com/story/1039900/snow-costs-uk-economy-500m-a-day www.kinetica.co.uk
The science of Snow
The UK gets on average 33 daysof snow fall or sleet a year
The snowiest place in
the UK is Banffshire
in Scotland, with 63.8
days of snow or sleet
falling a yearCornwall is least
likely to get snow, with an average of only 10.2days of snow or sleet
falling per year
Mt. Baker ski areain Wahington Statehas the world recordfor snowfall at1,140 inches
• Enough snow fell in Britain on February 2nd for everyone in the country to make a quarter of a million snowballs each
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