We called it static.
this post was submitted on 01 Apr 2024
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What prompted this question is some Japanese TV service ended this past weekend for a relative and the word to describe the static noise was "sand storm".
Thought it might be interesting to hear what it's called elsewhere.
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It's snow
Nothing more fancy in Boston than "snow".
Yeah that's a common one, I wonder if it would seen as more or less commonly like that depending on how cold the local climate is.
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