Winter is a beautiful season among all the other seasons as its beauty is brought up by nature itself. In this post, you will know about some surprising as well as interesting facts of  USA winter that many of us don’t know about.

Top 24  Most Surprising And Interesting Facts About USA Winter

Let’s now start to know about some interesting fun facts about winter…

1. The record for the most snow angels at one time was set in Ontario Canada in 2004 when a couple of schools joined to create 15,851 snow angels.
2. Hibernation or reduced metabolic activity is common in Winter.
3. Winter blues or Seasonal affective disorder (called SAD) is a type of depression that occurs at the same time every year.
4. The largest snowflake recorded in the GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS on 28^th of January, 1887 fell in Fort Keogh, Montana and was 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick.
5. The tallest snowman was 113 foot and 7inch tall.
6. In the UK the government of UK funds a service in which if you notify about a person who is sleeping rough during winter than, they will find that person and arrange a bed for that person for the night.
7. Can you imagine, that there is a town in NORWAY called hell, which freezes over almost every winter?
8. The highest snowfall ever recorded in a one year period was 31.1 meters (1224 inches) in Washington, between 1971 and 1972.
10. Antarctica set the record for the world’s coolest temperature at -129degree Fahrenheit or -89 degree Celsius.
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12. The southern hemisphere has milder winter than in the northern hemisphere because it has a more maritime climate and less land.
13. This can be said as a surprise as well as interesting fact that the fear of snow is known as CHIONOPHOBIA
14. which especially includes the fear of being trapped by snow.
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16. It’s actually true that no two flakes are alike.
17. The highest snowfall ever recorded in a one year period was 31.1 meters (1224 inches) in Washington, between 1971 and 1972.
18. In 1921, the most snow in 24 hours was recorded at Silver Lake, Colorado, the U.S.A. with 76 inches.
19. Around one septillion (that means 1 followed by 24 zeroes) crystals of snowfall from the sky every winter.
20. The term winter is derived from the Proto-Germanic word WENTRUZ, which means wet or wind.
21. One of the interesting fact about winter is that it sometimes snows where you least expect it to be.
22. One of the surprising fact about winter is that winter cold kills more than twice as many Americans as summer heat does.
23. Another surprising as well as interesting fact about the winter is that a single snowstorm can drop 39 million tons of snow.