(from my Wisconsin farm days)
Snow is beneficial because it insulates the exposed ground during the windy winter months. As it melts, its runoff is more gradual and less erosive than if it had fallen as rain. As you know, each snowflake (and raindrop, which originally forms as a snwoflake) is essentially an ice crystal formed around a speck of dust. This dust adds to the topsoil.
(at least that’s what I was taught)
It makes things so purty, so we go outside and take pictures of it. We can do this because it has also shut down all nonessential functions of civilization (and some essential ones.) I haven’t seen snow for years.
Snow kills fleas. That is its purpose. God hates fleas.
We just don’t know.
What’s a driveway? Oh yeah, that thing I can see from May to August.
The purpose of snow? Without it, Irving Berlin would have spent half his life, pondering, “I’m Dreaming of a . . . .”
Therefore the dust, and other contaminating agents, are removed from the air making it purer and thus more healthy to breathe.
(Smart ass warning)
The purpose of snow ? From an evolutionary standpoint, snow is yet another challenge to survival/reproduction. So the evolutionary benefit of snow is to suggest (to the more gifted of the species) to not…live…where…it…snows.
It’s a lot better than freezing rain, as I can attest in an area that’s had massive tree damage this week.
Probably also gentler to the trees than solid shards of ice, as sleet or even hail could be.
There’s your evidence for intelligent design right there. At least, I’d like to hope that somebody’s doing intelligent design. My city power is mostly out right now due to ice storm damage.
:mad: Now I’m really crabby! My neighbor just knocked on the door and asked for me to help her. She actually got stuck backing out of her driveway! And she has front wheel drive too yet! And my wife is standing there going “yeah, he’ll be right out! Go out and help her! Go out and help her! Go out and help her! Go out and help her! Go out and help her!”
Damn snow! Damn women! Grrr!!:mad:
Are we now asking about the Evolutionary or Intelligent Design purpose of women?
Hurricane? WTF is a Hurricane? 
Women are there to tell the men to shovel the snow.
And help other people push their cars out of it.
Oh, and they are makers of sammiches.
And sometimes they are available for sex.
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Snow is that stuff we finally got some of today in place of all that mother fcking** muck that we’ve been scraping off our cars since the so-called “winter” started here. It keeps the dust down and protects our waterlines from freezing temperatures and brightens our so-called “days” during December - February when the sun skips along the mountain tops in a mocking redition of daylightpantpantpant.
It’s like a blizzard with palm trees. 
I just saw my first (non-inside-of-old-freezer) snow last month, when I was in Sweden. It got old fast. It soaked through my shoes and made my feet cold and wet. Thankyouverymuch, I think I’ll be staying in a nice sub-tropical zone for now.
It bring tourists, and their skis, to the ski resort I now work at. I like snow. Except for when I have to drive in it, but even then, before the snow on the roads gets all dirty and nasty, it’s soooo pretty!
Otherwise…dunno, it’s just part of the way the planet works.
Except when, you know, when there’s a snowstorm and everyone is basically snowed in and there’s an increase in births nine months later.
39% of all Saskatchewanians were born like this! It’s a fact! That I pulled out of my ass!