Can you see the clouds when it snows?

Question

When it snows and you look up into the sky it looks white, this is unsurprising, but is it the bottom of the clouds from which it is snowing that you can see or is your vision of the clouds obscured by the infinite number of white snow flakes between you and the base of the clouds?

Answer 1

If the snowfall is light, you can see the clouds. Otherwise you just see the snow.

When you're up flying, the clouds that cause the snowfall usually don't look like clouds anymore once it starts snowing properly: even though you are at "cloud altitude", it still looks only like snowfall outside, and not like the inside of a cloud. (The inside of a cloud looks like fog (when it's not snowing).)

Answer 2

That's an interesting question! I always assumed that they are the clouds from which the snow comes because before it snows, you can see the clouds in (usually) a certain "look." From a farm and family who lived w/o electricity or running water up until the late 1960's, we're pretty fair "forecasters." We'll look out and proclaim, "Looks like snow." It seems that once all of those formations "converge" into a solid (not solid, of course) cloud, the snow comes in. What I think is cool is "thunder snow" where lightening rips through it.

Answer 3

Yes you can see the clouds when it snows, it's just that the sky is normally covered in cloud and you cannot see the sky for the clouds giving the illusion of a white sky.

Answer 4

That would all depend on how heavily it was snowing at the time

I would assume if it were snowing very heavily then all you would see would be the snow flakes. Usually clouds that drop snow are quite dark and not very white at all.

Answer 5

Yes

Answer 6

yh you can see the clouds but its hard beacuse the snow keeps getting in your eyes

Answer 7

no because theres snowclouds there? LOL HA HA GET IT SNOWCLOUDS o well i thought it was funny