The US has been experiencing extreme weather lately, and some of these storms have brought record-breaking amounts of snow to big swaths of the country. Of course the snow has made it onto social media, including pictures of people showing off their snow cream and snow cocktails creations.
You know not to use the
yellow snow in your snowy desserts. But should you even be eating any snow is it actually safe? We asked a few experts about it. What is snow, exactly?
First, some background on snow: The pretty white stuff is just precipitation in the form of ice crystals. As the National Snow and Ice Data Center puts it, once an ice crystal has formed, it absorbs and freezes additional water vapor from the surrounding air, growing into a snow crystal or snow pellet, which then falls to Earth.