Finland

"Spring" greetings. Been inactive for a year. And only visited to say hello. Last winter we got a lot of this white stuff. Last week it looked it is almost over, but not! Although I do hate snow, it surely looks nice sometimes. Dedicated to Isabel ;-) P.S. Just renewed my membership. So, at least supporting Ipernity that way.

In Finnish there are numerous words to describe the different forms of snow: lumi: snow pyry: snow shower myräkkä: snowstorm rae: hail räntä: sleet tuisku: snow shower with strong wind laviini: a small avalanche hyhmä: snow floating atop water loska: very wet snow; snow, water and mud mixed together sohjo: slush; snow and water mixed together ahto: pack-ice (broken & refrozen ice) ahtauma: a formation of pack-ice jää: ice kide: ice crystal kohva: gray ice formed from wet snow paanne: multi-layered ice (typically waves crash on top and freeze) railo: pressure ridge in ice röpelö: uneven ice tökkö: ice with frost on top iljanne: a thin layer of snow atop ice hanki: a even layer of snow on the ground, esp. if enough for skiing huurre: rime; granular frost (the white stuff in your freezer) härmä: frost kinos: snow drift; a loose pile of snow, esp. one formed by wind kaljama: a thick layer of ice on the ground, lethal in the spring kuura: hoarfrost; frozen dew nietos: a large, hard pile of snow (may be refrozen) nuoska: "snowballable” snow, usually formed when powdery snow melts a bit polanne: a hard layer of compacted snow tykky: large chunks of snow, esp. when frozen onto trees viti: freshly fallen powdery snow avanto: a hole in ice jotos: reindeer tracks in snow latu: a ski trail in snow rannio: a reindeer path in deep snow Sources: ➽ Wiktionary: loskakeli ➽ Welcome to my Finland, Finnish words for snow