In addition to being the name given to frozen water that, in a solid state, falls from the clouds, it is the result of a meteorological phenomenon that consists of the precipitation of small ice crystals. Said snow crystals adopt geometric shapes with fractal characteristics and are grouped into flakes, they are small rough particles of granular material, when descending on the earth's surface, they cover everything with a white blanket.
This phenomenon is frequent in many regions of the world where the temperature is very low at least in winter season. Snow is the water vapor that experiences high deposition in the atmosphere at temperatures below 0 ºC and later falls on the earth. When these snowfalls are abundant, they can cause material damage (infrastructures) of a city, it can also cause traffic accidents, deaths due to low temperatures and interrupt the daily activities of the region or city.
There are types of snow precipitation such as: snowfall is the fall or precipitation of snowflakes; Nevasca: it is a storm in which heavy to intense snow precipitation occurs; snow blizzard: it is a snowfall or a snowstorm accompanied by strong winds, the visibility in this type of precipitation is reduced; Sleet: it is a form of mixed precipitation. That is, it is a combination of water levels and snowflakes, particularly melted; cinarra: it is the fall of granules of snow or granulated snow (white hail).
Countries or cities with low temperatures attract mainly tourists for the snow. Since the places suitable for the practice of sports such as skiing and snowboarding.
