Snipped from DiscoveryMagazine.com.

Whether you are from Fargo and are intimately familiar with the white fluffy stuff, or you are from South Texas and you have only dreamed of it, snow may be more fascinating than you think. Here is an article covering 20 things you may have never known about snow.

Here is a small portion of the article:

1 Snow is a mineral, just like diamonds and salt.

5 At the center of almost every snow crystal is a tiny mote of dust, which can be anything from volcanic ash to a particle from outer space.

8 Thundersnow—a blizzard with visible lightning—is rare. But some scientists hypothesize that all lightning is born of snow that’s just out of sight: Ice crystals in clouds collide and generate electricity.

11 Don’t eat the red snow, either: “Watermelon snow,” ruddy-tinted drifts that smell like fresh watermelon, gets its color from a species of pigmented algae that grows in ice. The snow tastes great, but eating it will give you the runs.