• 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