What are the different types of snow ?

Question

and how are they formed

Answer 1

Here are the various types :

Blizzard
A long-lasting snow storm with intense snowfall and usually high winds. Particularly severe storms can create whiteout conditions where visibility is reduced to less than 1 m.

Flurry
A period of light snow with usually little accumulation with occasional moderate snowfall.

Freezing rain
Rain that freezes on impact with a sufficiently cold surface. This can cover trees in a uniform layer of very clear, shiny ice – a beautiful phenomenon, though excessive accumulation can break tree limbs and utility lines, causing utility failures and possible property damage.

Graupel
Precipitation formed when freezing fog condenses on a snowflake, forming a ball of rime ice. Also known as snow pellets.

Ground blizzard
Occurs when a strong wind drives already fallen snow to create drifts and whiteouts.

Hail
Many-layered ice balls, ranging from "pea" sized (0.25 in, 6 mm) to "golf ball" sized (1.75 in, 43 mm), to, in rare cases, "softball" sized or greater (­>4.25 in, 108 mm).

Hailstorm
A storm of hail. If the hail is sufficiently large, it can cause damage to cars or even people.

Lake effect snow
Produced when cold winds move across long expanses of warmer lake water, picking up water vapor which freezes and is deposited on the lake's shores.

Sleet
In Britain, rain mixed with snow; in America, ice pellets formed when snowflakes pass through a layer of warm air, thaw, then refreeze on further descent.

Snow pellets
See graupel.

Snow squall
A brief, very intense snowstorm.

Snow storm
A long storm of relatively heavy snow.

Soft hail
Granules of snow or ice pellets formed when supercooled water accretes on ice crystals or snowflakes.

Thundersnow
A thunderstorm which produces snow as the primary form of precipitation.

Snow on ground :


Artificial snow
Snow can be also manufactured using snow cannons, which actually create tiny granules more like soft hail (this is sometimes called "grits" by those in the southern U.S. for its likeness to the texture of the food). In recent years, snow cannons have been produced that create more natural-looking snow, but these machines are prohibitively expensive.

Blowing snow
Snow on ground that is being moved around by wind. See ground blizzard.

Corn
Coarse, granular wet snow. Most commonly used by skiers describing good spring snow. Corn is the result of diurnal cycle of melting and refreezing.

Crust
A double layer of snow in which the lower layer may be powdery dry but where the surface is frozen together into a stiff, icy surface, which often can support human weight.

Ice
Densely packed material formed from snow that doesn't contain air bubbles. Depending on the snow accumulation rate, the air temperature, and the weight of the snow in the upper layers, it can take snow a few hours or a few decades to form into ice.

Firn
Snow which has been lying for at least a year but which has not yet consolidated into glacier ice. It is granular.

Packed Powder
The most common snow cover on ski slopes, consisting of powder snow that has lain on the ground long enough to become compressed, but is still loose.

Packing snow
Snow that is at or near the melting point, so that it can easily be packed into snowballs and hurled at other people or objects. This is perfect for snow fights and other winter fun, such as making a snowman, or a snow fort.

Penitentes
Tall blades of snow found at high altitudes.

Powder
Freshly fallen, uncompacted snow. The density and moisture content of powder snow can vary widely; snowfall in coastal regions and areas with higher humidity is usually heavier than a similar depth of snowfall in an arid or continental region. Light, dry (low moisture content) powder snow is prized by skiers and snowboarders. It is often found in the Rocky Mountains of North America and in Niseko, Japan.

Slush
Snow which partially melts upon reaching the ground, to the point that it accumulates in puddles of partially-frozen water.

Snowdrift
Large piles of snow which occur near walls and curbs, as the wind tends to push the snow up toward the vertical surfaces.

Watermelon snow
A reddish/pink colored snow that smells like watermelons, and is caused by a red colored green algae called chlamydomonas nivalis

Answer 2

Snow is solid precipitation which occurs in a variety of minute ice cystals at temperature well below zero degree celcius.
Snow flakes are larger in size which occurs when the temperature is near zero degree temperature(not exactly zero degree).
Granular snow consists of opaque grains,rather flattened in shape and generally less than one millimetre in diameter.
Sleet is a mixture of falling rain and snow.

Answer 3

Light and heavy snow

Answer 4

white and yellow dont eat the yellow type