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Thundersnow is a thunderstorm that storms snow instead of rain. This happens because the Earth's troposphere has dryer, colder air. The dry air forms a storm, but the cold air freezes the rain into snow. Rime is frozen fog, forming ice on an object. This happens when fog freezes onto the side of an object that is hit by wind. Firn is snow that lasts throughout the summer season. When it snows, the snow gets compacted and air leaves. This compacts snow so greatly that it forms a block of ice. Watermelon snow is snow that has a red or pink color. This happens because snow has a pigment in it called carotenoid pigment. This pigment dies the algae in snow to protect it from U.V. radiation and the cold.

http://www.theweatherprediction.com/habyhints/334/

Jeff Haby

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_rime

January 4, 2010

http://www.answers.com/topic/firn

Susan Mayhew 2004

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-watermelon-snow.htm

S.E. Smith 2003-2010