The snow comes across the Great Salt Lake Desert, hits the Wasatch mountain range and gets pushed up and turned into light, but consistent powdery snow.

BBC: Living in: Ski resort towns

Still, as much as Anchorage residents can revel in being standouts when it comes to snow in their country, they hardly merit top billing in their own state.

CNN: Anchorage breaks seasonal snowfall record

What will happen when the sun finally comes out and the snow stops and the ice melts and the whole landscape is transformed into spring and stuff is blooming and farmers are running their gigantic combines up and down the long rows?

NEWYORKER: Indianapolis (Highway 74)

The flow in the Mekong comes mainly from rainfall and some snow melt, not melting ice.

ECONOMIST: Letters

The bright sunlight comes out and it reflect off the snow and ice, and it means that you're wearing sunglasses almost all day long and that gives you a headache after a while.

NPR: Life in the Land of the Midnight Sun

It comes after about 3in (8cm) of snow fell in Norfolk and Suffolk on Monday morning, with parts of the East Midlands, south-east England, north-east England, south-west Scotland, Lothian and the Borders and Yorkshire and the Humber also affected.

BBC: UK weather: Travel disruption after fresh snow

Residents of a remote Exmoor village, cut off by snow, claim they are "always the first to suffer" when it comes to the council's gritting service.

BBC: Parracombe in 1978

It is here, over the tops of the inevitable ducks, that Gokyo Ri first comes into view, its brown rounded form a contrast to the snow-covered, sharp-tipped lines of Cho Oyu beyond.

BBC: Nepal��s other Everest

"When it comes to politics, you don't get that immediate effect, " Snow says.

CNN: NHPrimary.com: Non-voters will stay in the shadows

Morning comes, and the boar tracks are buried beneath a fresh layer of thick, pristine snow.

BBC: Poland's wild woods