Snow-yay! Snow In the Quran?

Is it bad to say that Dr. McGrath’s email almost brought me to tears, tears of joy? Not that I didn’t want to go to class, but the snow outside right now is beautiful. As I have just returned from a nice sledding adventure on the Bowl, I thought my day could not get better, but then I checked my email and was overwhelmed with happiness. In the spirit of the Winter Wonderland, I thought it would be interesting to look into snow or Winter seasonal traditions in Islamic culture. In my research I came across many articles discussing how there is no mention of snow in the Quran. There was excessive debate of snow versus hail, as hail specifically is mentioned but snow is not. Some argue that the Hadiths do mention snow; however, this too is debated. Regardless of the significance of the mention of snow or not, I found this controversy to be interesting as snow is mentioned in the Bible and the Torah (from what I read online). In terms of snow and Islam in other connections, there seems to also be some debate about the creation of snowmen in the Islamic community, because Islam prohibits making images of animate beings. Some argue that it is permissible to make snowmen because there are no creatures that look like snowmen, and some still say this is prohibited in the text. Despite how you may personally feel, it is an interesting topic of conversation in the Islamic community and in modern times.