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Has it snowed yet this year where you are?

When you take a walk outside a day or two after a snowstorm, you'll see icicles hanging from the edges of buildings.

When it snows, delicate snowflakes fall from the sky.

If the snow is light, we also describe it as flurries.

Snow flurries usually don't stick to the ground because the temperatures are not

When you see a tiny bit of light snow on cars and sidewalks, it almost looks like dust, which is why we call it dusting.

So when your husband or wife asks you to look out the window in the morning and describe the snowfall, you could just say, not much snow, just a dusting.

Once the winter weather conditions are right, we can get a proper snowstorm.

A major snowstorm with strong winds can also be called a blizzard.

My first winter in America introduced me to snow days in school.

Back then, when we used to get a lot of snow each winter, schools would close for a day or two to allow the neighborhoods to clean out the snow on the roads, shovel out the cars on streets and driveways and ensure everyone can commute safely.

And once the snow starts melting, we get slush.

Slush is watery, melting, messy snow.

So, back to snow days.

My cousin Paweł and I would take our snow shovels out on a day when the snow was fresh and we would go around our neighborhood knocking on doors asking people if they would want us to shovel their driveways and walkways around the house in exchange for payment.

I don't know whether this December will bring enough snow to put young children to work, but there is something beautiful, magic and nostalgic about a white Christmas.