Editing Snow (section)

===Drifting===
[[File:Long Mynd snowdrift.jpeg|thumb|right|Snow drifts forming around downwind obstructions]]
When powdery snow drifts with the [[wind]] from the location where it originally fell,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cocorahs.org/media/docs/KS/CoCoRaHS%20Snow.PDF|title=CoCoRaHS in the Cold – Measuring in Snowy Weather|publisher=Colorado Climate Center|author=Joy Haden|date=February 8, 2005|access-date=July 12, 2009|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718172302/http://www.cocorahs.org/media/docs/KS/CoCoRaHS%20Snow.PDF|archive-date=July 18, 2011|df=mdy-all}}</ref> forming deposits with a depth of several meters in isolated locations.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/4434935/Snow-Britain-Snow-drifts-and-blizzards-of-the-past.html|title=Snow Britain: Snow drifts and blizzards of the past|author=Caroline Gammel|date=February 2, 2009|access-date=July 12, 2009|publisher=Telegraph Media Group|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090205075802/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/4434935/Snow-Britain-Snow-drifts-and-blizzards-of-the-past.html|archive-date=February 5, 2009|df=mdy-all}}</ref> After attaching to hillsides, blown snow can evolve into a snow slab, which is an avalanche hazard on steep slopes.<ref name="McClung 2006"/>