The word blowing snow is not often used in conversations and communication, but it is regularly found in fiction and even songs. Take, for example, Filipenko’s children’s musical work to Volgina’s words: “The sledges themselves are running, the snow is spreading ...”. What kind of phenomenon does the author describe? For those who do not know, our information will come in handy.
What does blowing snow mean?
The word manure is one-root with the word earth, and it is already clear from this that this phenomenon is somehow connected with the surface of our planet. Many dictionaries use the notion of a “blowing snow” to explain what is blowing snow. To make it clearer - a cold wind, blowing along the surface of the soil, raises the snow masses to a small height, circles them, creating a kind of air turbulence. Sometimes gusts of wind for a long time can be directed in one direction, then the snow more evenly follows the air masses, forming small snowdrifts and sprinkling notches and gullies.
Distinctive features
Blowing snow is one of the varieties of blizzards. Here you need to understand the main difference. To understand
what is snowing, it is enough to know that this phenomenon occurs when there is no snowfall. The remaining varieties: snowstorm, blizzard, snowstorm are accompanied, in addition to gusts of heavy wind, precipitation. Especially dangerous is a blizzard that drags on for several days. Strong snowstorms cause significant damage to the economy, often felt by the agricultural industry: the wind can blow snow from the fields, exposing
winter crops.
Blowing snow in the city and in nature
Residents of cities, especially megacities, may not even know what snow is, and not notice it. This phenomenon is much less common here than in open
spaces. Firstly, numerous high-rise buildings and other buildings interfere with the wind. Secondly, with a large number of passers-by passing through the streets, the snow simply crushes into the ground. Thirdly, the dust of the city is mixed in the precipitation, the snow becomes heavier, and
the wind force capable of raising it should be greater. Outside the city, these factors are expressed to a much lesser extent, therefore, residents of villages and villages know what snowing is, they are well aware. It does not pose a danger to humans; usually, to forest dwellers - large and small. Although in nature, everything is relative. If the snow blows snow and spills traces of an unlucky mouse or hare, then the animal’s life will be saved. Without fingerprints in the snow, the fox is more difficult to find hiding prey, you have to use only one sense of smell. But the cheat itself may be left without lunch. In winter, especially when snow and frost rule, there is a big problem with food in the forest. And not the fact that the fox, wolf or any other hunter will survive. But the snowstorm is much more dangerous than the “blowing snow”. Therefore, we shall consider light snowing a natural phenomenon pleasing to the eye.