How many words for snow....

I think it maybe myth that Eskimo's have 20 different words (or ways inn Inuktitut) to describe snow, but I think not. In ant even it was reassuring to read that the Scot's have as many ways to describe "rain" - and here they are:

Twenty Scottish descriptions, and their translations, for rain and the act of raining arranged in order from lightest to most severe:

drowie (misty, drizzling, damp);
haar (a mist from the sea);
dreich (merely overcast to distinctly damp);
oorlich (damp, chilly, bleak) simmer-bob (a period of frequent, slight rain);
smirr (a fine drizzle);
Liddesdale drow (a thick, wetting drizzle);
blaw bye (a passing slower);
growin' shoorie (a welcome shower);
peuch, peuchle (to rain in fits);
plowtery (messy, dirty wet, showery);
sump (a great fall of rain);
scudder (a driving shower of rain);
blashy (rainy, wet, gusty);
plump (a sudden, heavy fall of rain);
pish-oot (a downpour);
feechie (foul, dirty, rainy, puddly);
drouk (to soak);
blatter (violent rain);
black weet (a deluge).

There's a sonnet in there somewhere.