爷爷告诉我们,有些人相信,如果你想过一个多雪的冬天,你就得在冬天以前先存一点雪,放入魔法雪堆中。
He would tell us how some folks believed that if you wanted a good snowy winter, you always had to save a little snow from the winter before and put it into the magic snowbank.
滑雪场需要很多雪,但没有足够的雪怎么办?如果那样,他们自己制造。
Ski areas need a lot of snow. But what happens when there is not enough? In that case, they make their own.
今天许多雪场用计算机来测量天气情况,在最合适的时候造雪。
Today many ski areas use computers to measure the conditions and start the snow making when the conditions are best.
约有11万日本猕猴居住在日本,其中7000只住在本州岛严冷而多雪的高山,使它们赢得了“雪猴”的别名。
Some 110,000 live in Japan, 7,000 of them in the cold, snowy Alps of Honshu, where they have earned the moniker "snow monkey."
但是当那么多雪于2009年12月19日晚上降落在弗吉尼亚州夏洛茨维尔时,它是一次创纪录的暴风雪,迫使人们做一些他们不习惯做的事情—铲雪。
But when that much snow fell on Charlottesville, Va., the night of Dec. 19, 2009, it was a record-setting storm that forced folks to do something they weren't used to doing - shovel snow.
但是当那么多雪于2009年12月19日晚上降落在弗吉尼亚州夏洛茨维尔时,它是一次创纪录的暴风雪,迫使人们做一些他们不习惯做的事情—铲雪。
But when that much snow fell on Charlottesville, Va., the night of Dec. 19, 2009, it was a record-setting storm that forced folks to do something they weren't used to doing - shovel snow.
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