How snow machines create snow for the Winter Olympics

Sochi , Russia , the host city of next month ’s Winter Olympics , is nothing close to cold right now . The temperature hovers at a very soft 55 degrees which means it ’s very far from freeze which entail it ’s very far from snowing . But . Like . Um . You kind of need blow to host a Winter Olympics . So Sochi enlist the help of snow machines to get man made snow spewed for the games .

Snow machines have always been used for the Olympics so it ’s nothing especially new to see . What ’s enthralling though is seeing SMI Snow Makers , the weather gods behind the piece made snow , talk to National Geographic about the entire operation of making coke , where they ’re pulling in their water beginning , what type of pressure is necessary how good of a quality their snow product is ( tantamount to two workweek honest-to-goodness lifelike snow ) and just seeing the snow machines blow . It ’s a lovely haze .

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