can it be too cold to snow?

Answer 1

No, but it can be too dry to snow.

Answer 2

Ask an eskimo or induit, in the artic where the snow is so deep and it's so cold it never melts

Or closer to home get up the Cumbrian Fells when it snows and see how cold it is

see previous answer

and in next time your out in the freezing cold have a look up and you'll probally not see clouds and it can't snow with no moisture/clouds

Answer 3

"Too cold" is relative - it must be in combination with the right humidity. In many parts of the world where it snows, there will be a temperature at which the average humidity prevents the formation of snow.

Hail (and thunder) is possible at any time of the year - it is just that in the summer, the temperature differential between the top and the bottom of a cumulonimbus cloud will be greater than in the winter (lower ground temperature) possibly causing the storm to be somewhat heavier.

Answer 4

It can never be to cold to snow... the younger dryas cold event a few thousand years ago had temps in the -100's in places, and yet it snowed like crazy because the glaciers advanced.
By the way people, hail happens in thunderstorms in the SUMMER.

Answer 5

I was wondering that too. I love snow and it's like 2 degrees right now where I live but no snow. I hiked up this mountain yesterday and there was plenty though :-D lol

Answer 6

yes and no. It can get REALLY cold that it will turn to hard ice insetead of like soft snow but i guess if you wanted to you could consider that snow.

Answer 7

Yes it can. In Antarctica, The precipitation actually turns to ice instead of snow. You probably don't want to live in these locations but it is possible.

Answer 8

It can but its obviously not here because its been snowing for the last hour.

Answer 9

Ive heard it said that it can be too cold because the clouds freeze but no sure if this is correct or not!

Answer 10

Ask that question in siberia where it drops to minus 40ish and is covered in snow