- "Lake effect snow" - probably named after the Great Lakes of North America. Here in Scandinavia we have a lot of it at the sea areas (lake of Finland are shallow and freeze so early, that "sea effect snow "is more common). I noticed the Germans use the English word - do the other languages have their own word for it ?
- "Grit. " (Small particles of snow, spread to roads to add friction. Works in temperatures when salt does not, and forms less clumps than sand). I lived in UK and there the even say "All those gritters - it's not cold." But colleagues in USA and in some pars of UK had never seen it. Do they use it in your parts of world and do they call it with other words ?
- "Snirt." When snow, grit, sand and dirt mix to beige, disgusting mass, the colleagues in Boulder call it snirt. Is this local joke or more common word ?
- "Polanne." (That is a Finnish word.) When cars (or people) pack snow to road surface so that it becomes almost like ice, hard and very slippery. (Opposite of powder snow). Glaciologists say neve and firn. Any common terms ?
Best regards, Elena