I’m taking a class on research methods and was so surprised to see a mention of Cecil and the SD in it! The chapter was on conceptualization and the author, Earl Babbie, was talking about the different words we have for snow:
It seemed like two of my worlds collided. What a weird feeling. 
Babbie, E. R. (2016). The practice of social research (14th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.
Heh, I get the same feeling whenever I see the SD referenced on Fark.
What about “rime?” “Hoarfrost?”
Heh heh. That musta felt cool. By extension, that cite refers also to you, in a way, as you are part of the greater fight against ignorance.
Seems like some of those are using a pretty loose definition of snow. Calling an avalanche another word for snow is like calling a mudslide another word for dirt.
My grandmother used to call a specific type of snow “hominy snow.” (IIRC, the small, granular flakes, not the large fluffy ones.)
That column has one of my favorite Cecil lines ever. By memory (I remember it the way I like it); Trying to translate the English phrase “Look at all that fucking snow”, into Eskimo, results in “See the snow. It fornicates.”
Heh! I remember the Eskimo line.
Oh, Unka Cec you tickle me!