Snow Facts

Dirty snow melts faster than clean.

Sheep can survive for up to two weeks buried in snow drifts.

It snows more in the Grand Canyon than it does in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

It 'snows' metal on Venus.

Carson Schmidt and Erik Masuda drove seven hours from Sacramento for a ski day at Palisades Tahoe. On their very first run, they spotted ski tips in the snow - and found a stranger buried several feet deep, face turning purple. They dug him out with their bare hands. He gasped, came around, and skied off to find his wife.

Mouse, a quarter horse, went missing on a backcountry trip in Wyoming in July 2025. He vanished into the Wind River Range, a rugged stretch of mountains near Moon Lake. He survived completely alone through the entire winter. A snowmobiler finally found him alive seven months later. Rescuers floated him out in a whitewater raft towed behind a snowmobile.

Snow and ice brought Birmingham, Alabama, to a standstill in January 2014. Neurosurgeon Zenko Hrynkiw was needed for emergency brain surgery at another hospital, so with traffic stuck he set off on foot in his scrubs. He walked miles through the storm until a stranger gave him a lift the rest of the way. He reached the hospital, operated, and the patient lived.