Blue Snow

When one and a half feet of snow fell last week, I kept seeing this blue tint in the mounds.

I enhanced this photo a bit in picasa to bring out the blue better so it actually wasn’t quite this bright.

I am not a scientific type person, so I’ve added a link underneath the photo to explain why snow (and ice) sometimes looks blue. I just thought it was unusual and pretty.

blue snow
"blue" snow

Read more about what makes ice and snow blue at the

Alaska Science Forum

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Author: Pam

New England native, Florida resident. Blogging about boating, beach-combing, gardening, camping, and knitting. Work for Zazzle as a designer since 2008.

2 thoughts on “Blue Snow”

  1. I noticed this blue coloration in our snowfall last month. I don’t remember seeing it as a kid (Montana, where we had quite a lot of snow).

    Are you dug out yet? That was quite a dump of snow you had.

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