a question about snow
 

Ok, so I live up in the great white north…..and it’s spring time, which gets me thinkin’……..where does the “white” go when the snow melts eh?

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eh?

it goes where all light ends up

well up here in Canada,we turn that stuff into.........

BEER....woohooo baby BEER

it evaporates into the air....then rains down on some other place...then time goes by and the air gets colder....that rain suddenly starts to freeze....and it snows again....then it gets warmer....and the snow evaporates into the air....then rains down on some other place...then time goes by and the air gets colder....that rain suddenly starts to freeze....and it snows again....then it gets warmer....and the snow evaporates into the air....then rains down on some other place...then time goes by and the air gets colder....that rain suddenly starts to freeze....and it snows again....then it gets warmer....and the snow evaporates into the air....then rains down on some other place...then time goes by and the air gets colder....that rain suddenly starts to freeze....and it snows again....then it gets warmer....and the snow evaporates into the air....then rains down on some other place...then time goes by and the air gets colder....that rain suddenly starts to freeze....and it snows again....then it gets warmer....and so on and so on and so on and so on

wow. the water cycle is mighty cool :D

i am at a loss for words...

They use it to make sails...

In a deep dank dungeon of sorrow, where it stays perpetually sighing in a manner that speaks volumes of its tortured soul. Snow is a goth.

it turns into people. stoopid snow.

i think they (the us government) turns it into money and dog food

In Sweden, we sell it to Japan. We market it as SUPER HAPPY FUNNY SNOW.

LUCKY SNOW YES IN DEED WHAT ELSE COULD YOU TRY TO THINK?

Uh...it's sold by the kilo?

This is actually true, we do.

Here in NY it turns to black slush before it melts. Must be what keeps the roads that color.

by the time the snow melts here my dogs already got 2 it all so the white turns 2 yellow

speaking of dogs, this gives me a new thoery.....you know how when the snow melts, the dog shit in the yard is white?
ah-ha!!! dog shit is in fact, a "white magnet"

"Black & Snow"

[INTRO]
Let me tell ya, Snow come back
What goes up must come down (who’s that?)
But I don’t wanna come back down (who’s that?)
Look at me I’m on top of the world
What I feel girl is real
I’m the king from the deck dem deal
Doesn’t anybody know?

[CHORUS]
Snow is back everybody body
Girls come wind up your body body
Fella’s snatch up a honey honey
Tell her she’s your one and only only
Now that I’m back you’re
Gonna hear me and see me
When you turn on your radio and TV
Snow is back in the game
Things will never be the same
No no no

[VERSE 1]
If your feelin nice and irie through your lighters up
Tell the DJ lord god for him to jack it up
To all the people over there dem a fi run jump up
Baby over there she a have hic-up
She has her eyes on me since a quarter to 9
Me never seen a girl wind the way that she whine
Oh no
Well she could never be me friend

[CHORUS]
Snow is back everybody body
Girls come wind up your body body
Fella’s snatch up a honey honey
Tell her she’s your one and only only
Now that I’m back you’re
Gonna hear me and see me
When you turn on your radio and TV
Snow is back in the game
Things will never be the same
No no no

[VERSE 2]
Me say me sorry that me kept the people waitin so long
Now that me back you can dance to a brand new tune
Tell ya motha sista brothas and ya fatha too
China white black ya can bring ya crew
Ever since from way back me have nuff love for you
And when you did a hurt me take a hurt lot for you god
Well she could never be me friend

[CHORUS]
Snow is back everybody body
Girls come wind up your body body
Fella’s snatch up a honey honey
Tell her she’s your one and only only
Now that I’m back you’re
Gonna hear me and see me
When you turn on your radio and TV
Snow is back in the game
Things will never be the same
No no no

[BRIDGE]
What goes up must come down
But I don’t wanna come back down
Chris Black - Chris Black catch the place on fire
Watch the beat and go, Chris Black you go

[VERSE 3 (CHRIS BLACK)]
After I snatch up a honey I just show her the keys
I aint got to say much she respects the G’s
Sprees to Tiffany’s - Trips to Belize
My Latino chick said Aruba would do her
After that she want a check Snow perform in Cuba
Maybe meet him in person sing Informer to her (Informer)
Next day I take her to the hotel and do her

[CHORUS (repeat 2X)]
Snow is back everybody body
Girls come wind up your body body
Fella’s snatch up a honey honey
Tell her she’s your one and only only
Now that I’m back you’re
Gonna hear me and see me
When you turn on your radio and TV
Snow is back in the game
Things will never be the same
No no no

what the hell is that Uncle Phil? is that supposed to be a song? holy culture shock Batman!

Snow Migrates even more north to the territories for the summer, then returns in the winter.

They make paper out of it. Really bad, cold, but recyclable paper

The serious answer?

Snow is crystalline H2O, which reflects 100% of the spectrum. Other minerals that are 'colored' absorb certain wavelengths of light due to their chemical composition and the reflected light - the absorbed light = the color you see.

Liquid H20 transmits light.

If you need more, you'll have to get a physicist who can give you data on crystal structure and light transmittance/reflectance.

It goes to white heaven or white hell???

That was funny <b>Xenu</b>.

Actually Lebell, the answer to why is snow white lies in snow's messy construction. A beam of white sunlight entering a snow bank is so quickly scattered by a zillion ice crystals and air pockets that most of it comes zinging right back out of the snow bank. No one wavelength is preferentially absorbed or reflected, so snow is essentially the color of the sunlight reflecting off it -- white.


But all snow is not so snow-white.
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Occasionally, walking across white snow, you'll see color flashes, like sparkles from a diamond. In this case, a cold, dry night has probably squeezed the last moisture out of the air and onto the top layer of snowflakes, where it has crystallized in a faceted pattern similar to ... a diamond. These little torture chambers bend and split light into its rainbow of wavelengths the way a prism does.
And then there are glaciers, which often look an eerie blue. Unlike snow, which is mostly air, ice is mostly ice. Without the scattering effect of air bubbles, light can penetrate much deeper into ice. And the deeper it goes, the more photons from the red end of the spectrum it loses along the way. Two meters into the glacier, most of the reds are dead.

The colors in sunlight react differently to each molecule -- ice molecules, dog molecules, apple molecules. In ice, it just happens that some blue wavelengths skate the farthest -- 24 meters -- before they're finally absorbed. And until they're absorbed, they're free to scatter and reflect. Some of them eventually find their way back out of the ice to glow blue at your eyeballs.


Determining where the white -- or the blue -- goes when the snow melts really begs a look at the warm version: water.
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The surface of water reflects very little light (about 7 percent). What happens to the other 93 percent of sunlight depends on where the water trickles. Clean, glacial melt in a stream will transmit light down to the stony stream bed, where some will be reflected and the rest will be absorbed. In a glacial tarn, or lake, tiny bits of glacier garbage (ground-up stone and dust) suspended in the water will impede transmission and color the water. As the water spills into an ocean, it will change color again as it mixes with a new assortment of salts and minerals and little life forms.
Those impurities traditionally are blamed for the color of water, says outspoken meteorology professor Craig Bohren of Penn State. He thinks differently. He says water is naturally a very, very faint shade of blue. All by itself. Without the sky reflecting in it, without blue minerals floating around in it, water, the water you drink, is blue.

"You need meters and meters of the stuff in order to see it," he says. "It's like window glass: You think it's clear. But take a look at it on edge. You'll see green."


With thanks to Discovery.com without which I would have had nothing intelligent to say