When the snow falls rich and fluffy and accumulates in layers over the ground, an unusual silence takes over around there. It is a silence that one might enjoy, but it also makes you wonder. Indeed, the activity is limited when the winter is so heavy (both people and animals burrow somewhere, trying to keep warm). But this is not the only reason.

The snow layers seem to create conditions of natural soundproofing. "When the snow falls, some sound waves are absorbed," says to Mashable the director of the Climate Central program, dealing with and studying the weather. "As the snowflakes pile up, there is more vacuum space left between them [and] the sound is not able to return from the snow as easily," said the scientist. She argues that the longer, denser and "fluffier" the snow is, the more it absorbs sound and produces a feeling of tranquility.

On the other hand, the phenomenon, according to some specialists, is also linked with the temperature of air masses. According to medium.com, since cold air is denser than the warm air, sound slows down when traveling through denser materials. When the snow falls, usually warmer air is near the surface, and cold air is higher. This results to the sound traveling farther in a curve to the atmosphere, hence it faints easier.

Information sourced from lifo.gr