snow

• on highlands caused glaciers

61:5.1By the close of the pre­ced­ing pe­riod the lands of the north­east­ern part of North Amer­ica and of north­ern Eu­rope were highly el­e­vated on an ex­ten­sive scale, in North Amer­ica vast ar­eas ris­ing up to 30,000 feet and more. Mild cli­mates had for­merly pre­vailed over these north­ern re­gions, and the arc­tic wa­ters were all open to evap­o­ra­tion, and they con­tin­ued to be ice-free un­til al­most the close of the glacial pe­riod.

61:5.2Si­mul­ta­ne­ously with these land el­e­va­tions the ocean cur­rents shifted, and the sea­sonal winds changed their di­rec­tion. These con­di­tions even­tu­ally pro­duced an al­most con­stant pre­cip­i­ta­tion of mois­ture from the move­ment of the heav­ily sat­u­rated at­mo­sphere over the north­ern high­lands. Snow be­gan to fall on these el­e­vated and there­fore cool re­gions, and it con­tin­ued to fall un­til it had at­tained a depth of 20,000 feet. The ar­eas of the great­est depth of snow, to­gether with al­ti­tude, de­ter­mined the cen­tral points of sub­se­quent glacial pres­sure flows. And the ice age per­sisted just as long as this ex­ces­sive pre­cip­i­ta­tion con­tin­ued to cover these north­ern high­lands with this enor­mous man­tle of snow, which soon meta­mor­phosed into solid but creep­ing ice.

• in highlands caused floods in Euphrates valley

78:7.2For thou­sands of years af­ter the sub­mer­gence of the first Eden the moun­tains about the east­ern coast of the Med­i­ter­ra­nean and those to the north­west and north­east of Mes­o­po­ta­mia con­tin­ued to rise. This el­e­va­tion of the high­lands was greatly ac­cel­er­ated about 5000 B.C., and this, to­gether with greatly in­creased snow­fall on the north­ern moun­tains, caused un­prece­dented floods each spring through­out the Eu­phrates val­ley. These spring floods grew in­creas­ingly worse so that even­tu­ally the in­hab­i­tants of the river re­gions were driven to the east­ern high­lands. For al­most a thou­sand years scores of cities were prac­ti­cally de­serted be­cause of these ex­ten­sive del­uges.

• no two crystals ever alike

111:4.6Snow crys­tals are al­ways hexag­o­nal in form, but no two are ever alike. Chil­dren con­form to types, but no two are ex­actly alike, even in the case of twins. Per­son­al­ity fol­lows types but is al­ways unique.

• snow storm in Galilee, A.D. 1

123:4.1This was, in­deed, an event­ful year in Je­sus’ life. Early in Jan­uary a great snow­storm oc­curred in Gal­i­lee. Snow fell two feet deep, the heav­i­est snow­fall Je­sus saw dur­ing his life­time and one of the deep­est at Naz­a­reth in a hun­dred years.