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A fair trade balance of rain and snow

Which is rarer – rain in winter or snow in summer? The issue surely merits a serious environmental discussion.
Firstly: Which is more sustainable – rain in winter or snow in summer? Surely rain in winter.
Secondly: Which leaves the smallest ecological impact – rain in winter or snow in summer? Surely snow in summer.

Thirdly: Which is more acceptable* – rain in winter or snow in summer? Depends on your clothes.

And finally: Which helps to create more job opportunities – rain in winter or snow in summer? A major issue for the electoral debate.
 

What is rain and what is snow?

Rain falls when the clouds are no longer able to hold the water vapour. Snow falls when the water vapour has held on to the clouds particularly tenaciously. Snow is stubborn rain. Hail? Hail is insulted rain.

Snow is more lasting than rain. Rain is rain only between cloud and earth. Then it changes into mud and puddles, rivers and lakes, seas and storms. Snow remains snow even on the ground. Remains, until it too turns into mud and puddles, rivers and lakes, seas and storms.

 

* Estonian "mahe" means both "pleasant, nice" and "ecological".