Jakarta, CNN Indonesia –
For most Indonesians who only know two seasons, rainy and hot, snow being rare. There are many unique facts that can be found in snow, one of which is that snow is not white.
CNNIndonesia.com trying to summarize some facts that maybe many people still don’t know about snow +62 which is water that crystallizes in the atmosphere and covers about 23 percent of the earth’s surface.
Snow Not White
Launch BBC Earth, snow experts will call this water vapor is not white, but transparent. The light reflected on the snow’s surface made it look white.
All corners of the snow reflect light in different directions scattering the entire color spectrum. Snow can also bring out a variety of spectacular colors.
Dust, pollution or fresh algae plants in low temperatures can make snow appear black, orange or blue.
Freshwater Earth In The Form Of Snow
Launch Snow Brains, of the total fresh water on earth, 80 percent is frozen in the form of ice or snow. This accounts for 12 percent of the earth’s surface.
Snow comes in many forms
One of the factors that determines the shape of snow is the temperature of the air around it. Research on snow has found this trend for a long time.
Needle-like ice crystals form at -2 degrees Celsius, while temperatures below -5 degrees Celsius form flat plate-like crystals.
Another change in temperature when snowflakes fall from the sky will determine the difference in the tree-like structure of the ice crystals.
There are 35 forms of snow, including a number of types of frozen deposits organized into snow catalogs.
Snow Clumps Keep Growing
Over the decades there have been stories of large snowflakes falling into various locations around the world. From five to 15 centimeters in size or even 38 centimeters in volume.
There is the Sound of Snow
The snow that had just fallen to the earth absorbed the sound waves, making everything sound silent, a more quiet atmosphere sounded after the snowfall stopped. But if the snow searches and then freezes again, it can reflect sound waves that sound further and clearer.
There are hundreds of terms about snow
The Eskimo tribe is said to have 100 terms about snow. In addition, the Inuit tribes who live in the Arctic region are often told to have 50 terms for snow. That fact is doubtful and considered as mere speculation.
Researchers at the University of Glasgow claim that the Scottish nation has 421 terminology that refers to skelf (large snowflakes), spitters (small snowflakes), and ubrak (the beginning of the melting of snow).
Monkeys Love Snow
Humans aren’t the only mammals that enjoy snowballing. Japanese macaques, also known as snow monkeys, have been observed making and playing with snowballs. The young ape looks happy stealing snowballs from the herd. They then wrestled over it.
Snow Doesn’t Forever Make You Healthy
Spending a lot of time in the highlands can expose you to piblokto, or ‘Arctic nervous breakdown’, a disease that afflicts the Inuit people living in the Arctic Circle.
Symptoms of this disease are repeating meaningless words and acting irrational or self-injurious. Symptoms are followed by amnesia or memory loss.
Fear of Snow
Chionophobia is the psychological condition of the fear of snow. The term comes from the Greek term, chion, which means snow. This phenomenon can develop from childhood trauma, one of which is an accident due to snow.
Snow Can Be Warm Too
Snow consists of 90 to 95 trapped air, meaning that it is a powerful insulator. This is the reason many animals bury themselves into deep burrows in winter to hibernate.
This is also provided that the snow house that is used to warm the body has a temperature of 100 degrees warmer than the outdoor. Snow is adaptable.
Usually, air temperatures need a point to form snow. But if it rains long enough, the area’s air can drop drastically and eventually create the right environment for snowflake production.
So the temperature can be 6 degrees Celsius at ground level, but snow is still falling from the sky.
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