‘Bomb cyclone’ brings cold and snow to the US

Why is it so light at night when it snows?

It’s so bright during the night time while snowing or when we have snow on the ground is due to the reflective fragments inside snowflakes that reflect light off the clouds.

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What is the rarest kind of lightning?

ball lightning, also called globe lightning, a rare aerial phenomenon in the form of a luminous sphere that is generally several centimetres in diameter.
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How fast would a human freeze in space?

It’s also very cold in space. You’ll eventually freeze solid. Depending on where you are in space, this will take 12-26 hours, but if you’re close to a star, you’ll be burnt to a crisp instead.
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Can it snow if its foggy?

Dense freezing fog can actually lead to snowfall. As a fog layer forms into a stratus cloud and temperatures drop, not only do super-cooled water droplets form but also ice crystals. The ice crystals grow at the expense of the water droplets on condensation nuclei leading to small snowflakes.
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Can snow survive space?

Scientists have observed clouds dropping snow high in the Martian atmosphere, only to see the precipitation vanish before getting anywhere near the surface (this happens on Earth too, in a phenomenon called virga).
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Is the sky blue due to oxygen?

There you have it – the sky is blue is because of Rayleigh Scattering by the nitrogen and oxygen molecules in the atmosphere. And the ocean is blue because of Rayleigh Scattering by the water molecules that make up the water, as well as reflecting the sky.
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Why sky gets clear after cold front?

After the passage of the cold front, the sky usually clears as high pressure builds in behind the system, although significant amounts of cumulus or stratocumulus, often in the form of long bands called cloud streets may persist if the air mass behind the front remains humid from a source of moisture.
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Why is the sky red at 2am?

A red sky appears when dust and small particles are trapped in the atmosphere by high pressure. This scatters blue light leaving only red light to give the sky its notable appearance.
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Why is the sky clear when it snows?

When we have snow on the ground, the snow is reflecting more light to the sky and off the clouds. The light then rebounds back to the surface and makes everything appear lighter. The light is essentially getting trapped in the atmosphere when snow is falling or on the ground.

What makes snow more fluffy?

The light fluffy snow forms when all layers of the atmosphere are below freezing. because the air is cold, all the way down to the surface, snowflakes don’t melt. That allows the individual flakes to stay light and fluffy.
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Can pilots see in the snow?

Myths About Flying in Snow
32 As long as slick or wet runway conditions don’t prevent take off and heavy snow doesn’t impair visibility, winter weather does not present a fundamental impediment to flight.
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Why doesn’t it get dark when it snows?

The color white is highly reflective, so light scatters in all directions and more of that light reaches your eyes. This is why it even looks bright at night when it snows. When we have snow on the ground, the snow is reflecting more light to the sky and off the clouds.
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Can it snow during a tornado?

In four out of five cases, they are accompanied by widespread blizzard, heavy snow conditions, and/or extensive glazing on the cold side of the responsible weather system.
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Is the sky bluer in summer?

During summer there’s a lot more moisture in the air which not only makes it more humid, but the more water vapor present means there are are molecules around to scatter the blue light, so the sky appears more dull and less vibrant. The more Rayleigh scattering occurring, the more blue the sky looks.
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How rare is a thundersnow?

The Science. Also known as thunder snowstorms or winter thunderstorms, a thundersnow only happens when a rare set of conditions occur. In fact, people only witness about 6.3 thundersnow events each year.
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What is the rarest sky color?

In the living world beneath our red-ravenous atmosphere, blue is the rarest color: There is no naturally occurring true blue pigment in nature.
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What is diamond dust snow?

diamond dust. a type of precipitation composed of slowly falling, very small, unbranched crystals of ice which often seem to float in the air; it may fall from a high cloud or from a cloudless sky, it usually occurs under frosty weather conditions (under very low air temperatures).
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What is a snow tornado?

This is a very rare phenomenon that occurs when surface wind shear acts to generate a vortex over snow cover, resulting in a whirling column of snow particles being raised from the ground. It is sometimes referred to as a “snownado”.
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How cold is space really?

According to data from the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite, the temperature of space is 2.725K (2.725 degrees above absolute zero).
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What happens to the sky when it snows?

With regards to the sky when snow looks to move in, light bouncing off clouds and atmospheric particles is scattered, leaving longer wavelengths as the color we see. When snow is falling, that same light reflects off all the different snowflakes, giving a pink hue to the sky.
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Would a person freeze in space?

Acute exposure to the vacuum of space: No, you won’t freeze (or explode) One common misconception is that outer space is cold, but in truth, space itself has no temperature.
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Why is sky so blue after snow?

The air in the winter is very dry. It’s also cold and cold air can’t hold as much water vapor in the air creating very small water droplets. The low sun angle and lack of moisture means sunlight doesn’t get scattered as much before reaching our eyes. To us, the sky appears a brighter blue.
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Can it snow with a clear sky?

Can it really snow on a cloudless, sunny day? It can if it’s diamond dust. More like Mother Nature’s tinsel than snow, this meteorological phenomenon is caused by millions of tiny ice crystals that form near the ground.
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Why does snow look like glitter at night?

Rays of light hit the individual ice crystals on the uppermost layer of snow and reflect the light back up, making it look sparkly.
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What is the real Colour of sky?

As far as wavelengths go, Earth’s sky really is a bluish violet. But because of our eyes we see it as pale blue.
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