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Has anyone noticed that it's brighter at night when it snows?  The tiniest bit of light is 2X amplified and travels a longer distance.   You don't need a flashlight if you go tramping around in the snow at night unless your deep in the country with no lights but any nearby glow seems much brighter.

 

Is light deflected different?

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Has anyone noticed that it's brighter at night when it snows? The tiniest bit of light is 2X amplified and travels a longer distance. You don't need a flashlight if you go tramping around in the snow at night unless your deep in the country with no lights but any nearby glow seems much brighter.

 

Is light deflected different?

I would think all that white snow reflects a lot of light. Making it brighter.
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Has anyone noticed that it's brighter at night when it snows? The tiniest bit of light is 2X amplified and travels a longer distance. You don't need a flashlight if you go tramping around in the snow at night unless your deep in the country with no lights but any nearby glow seems much brighter.

 

Is light deflected different?

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When there is snow on the ground and on the trees the surface is brighter so what little light there is at night is preserved instead of being sucked into the normally darker surfaces.

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We had a blizzard in February of 2006, and I'll always remember it because it literally never got dark that night. Like, the only difference between midnight and the late afternoon was the color of the light. Such a weird feeling walking around at 2AM, snow ripping down, hearing nothing but the light pitter-patter of the big flakes hitting the ground, yet having it feel like it was 4pm with the bright orange-ish glow.

 

To this day, I can't figure out why that storm affected the light in the manner it did. No other blizzards in my lifetime have done anything like that.

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We had a blizzard in February of 2006, and I'll always remember it because it literally never got dark that night. Like, the only difference between midnight and the late afternoon was the color of the light. Such a weird feeling walking around at 2AM, snow ripping down, hearing nothing but the light pitter-patter of the big flakes hitting the ground, yet having it feel like it was 4pm with the bright orange-ish glow.

 

To this day, I can't figure out why that storm affected the light in the manner it did. No other blizzards in my lifetime have done anything like that.

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I had the privilege to live near Lake Michigan and in New York City for several years. The silence of a deep snowfall, very peaceful. Night time light on snow cover during a full moon.

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