The word drizzle is not often used in conversation and communication, but it is regularly found in fiction and even songs. Take, at least a children's musical work Filippenko on the words of Volgina: "The sleigh themselves run, the snow drifts ...". What kind of phenomenon does the author describe? For those who do not know, our information will come in handy.
What does the drifting mean?
The word drift is a root with the word earth, and from this it is clear that the phenomenon is somehow connected with the surface of our planet. Many dictionaries use the notion of a "blizzard" to explain what a drizzle is. To make it clearer - a cold wind, blowing along the surface of the soil, lifts snow masses to a small height, circling them, creating a kind of airy twists. Sometimes wind gusts can be directed to one side for a long time, then the snow more evenly follows the air masses, forming small snowdrifts and sprinkling gullies and gullies.
Distinctive features
The driftwood is one of the types of blizzard. Here you need to understand the main difference. To understand what a drizzle is, it is enough to know that this phenomenon occurs when there is no snowfall. Other varieties: blizzard, blizzard, snowstorm are accompanied, in addition to gusts of heavy wind, precipitation. Especially dangerous is the snowstorm, which drags on for several days. Strong blizzards cause considerable damage to the economy, often the agricultural industry feels it: the wind can blow snow from the fields, exposing winter crops.
Landing in the city and in nature
Residents of cities, especially megacities, may not even know what a drizzle is, and do not notice it. This phenomenon occurs here much less frequently than on open Spaces. First, the wind is prevented from exploding by numerous high-rise buildings and other buildings. Secondly, a large number of passers-by passing through the streets are simply blown into the ground. Thirdly, the dust of the city is mixed in the precipitated sediment, the snow becomes heavier, and the force of the wind, capable of lifting it, should be greater. Outside the city, these factors are expressed to a much lesser extent, so the villager villages and villages, what is a drizzle, well know. For a person, she does not represent danger, for forest dwellers - large and small - usually too. Although in nature everything is relative. If the drifting snow drifts into the snow and shrouds the traces of the unlucky mouse or hare, then the animal's life will be saved. Without prints on the snow, the fox is more difficult to find the hiding prey, you will have to use only smell. But the cheat can stay without dinner. In winter, especially when snow and frost prevail, with food in the forest a big problem. And it's not a fact that a fox, a wolf or any other hunter will survive. But the storm is much more dangerous than a "blizzard". Therefore, an easy drizzle will be considered an eye-pleasing phenomenon of nature.