{"id":8368,"date":"2022-08-22T05:49:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T05:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visitranua.fi\/lumen-eri-olomuodot\/"},"modified":"2022-11-18T14:09:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T14:09:02","slug":"lumen-eri-olomuodot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visitranua.fi\/en\/lumen-eri-olomuodot\/","title":{"rendered":"WET SNOW, POWDER, CRUST OF SNOW\u2026TYPES OF SNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Many names for snow<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>There are many different words for snow in Finnish language. Depending on temperature and speed of wind, snow can be very wet, fluffy or packed. In Finnish, wet snow is called&nbsp;<strong>nuoska<\/strong>, fluffy snow&nbsp;<strong>h\u00f6tt\u00f6&nbsp;<\/strong>and packed snow&nbsp;<strong>ajolumi.&nbsp;<\/strong>The one that sticks to branches and different surfaces is called&nbsp;<strong>kuura<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The exact amount of words is hard to tell as different dialects have also their own expressions in addition to the commonly known ones. Snow itself is ice crystals that are formed in clouds. Shape of individual ice crystal varies depending on humidity. Dry air produces simple forms and moist air may cause complex star-shapes. When the crystal has gotten large enough, it starts it journey to ground. Snowflakes evolve from joined crystals. When snowflakes are big, they can called&nbsp;<strong>r\u00e4tti<\/strong>. Also different types of snow fall have different words. Blizzard is called&nbsp;<strong>tuisku&nbsp;<\/strong>or&nbsp;<strong>pyry<\/strong>, and sleet is called&nbsp;<strong>r\u00e4nt\u00e4sade.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When it is time for snow crust,&nbsp;<strong>hanki<\/strong>, many dig out their skis and head to the hard surface. When the crust is really hard, you do not even need snowshoes for moving aroud.&nbsp;<strong>Viti<\/strong>, white snow, makes the landscape look silent and clean, and it makes crunching sound under the feet. When the snow is really fluffy and soft, it is a great exercise just to walk in it.&nbsp;<strong>Nuoska<\/strong>, wet snow, inspires to sculpt and form snowman, snow horses and snow castles. When it is really cold,&nbsp;<strong>pakkaslumi<\/strong>, reflects moonlight like there would me millions of diamonds on the ground. What a great photos you can get then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Different forms of snow bring their own possibilities and specialties. Also the folk stories, and local experiences about snow are interesting to hear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/visitranua.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/lumiukko-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2136\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many names for snow There are many different words for snow in Finnish language. Depending on temperature and speed of wind, snow can be very wet, fluffy or packed. In Finnish, wet snow is called&nbsp;nuoska, fluffy snow&nbsp;h\u00f6tt\u00f6&nbsp;and packed snow&nbsp;ajolumi.&nbsp;The one that sticks to branches and different surfaces is called&nbsp;kuura. The exact amount of words is &#8230; <a title=\"WET SNOW, POWDER, CRUST OF SNOW\u2026TYPES OF SNOW\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/visitranua.fi\/en\/lumen-eri-olomuodot\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about WET SNOW, POWDER, CRUST OF SNOW\u2026TYPES OF SNOW\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitranua.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitranua.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitranua.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitranua.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitranua.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8368"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/visitranua.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8378,"href":"https:\/\/visitranua.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8368\/revisions\/8378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitranua.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitranua.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitranua.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitranua.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}