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In a whiteout, what happens to what you can see?

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  1. Contrast vanishes, so you cannot tell the horizon or snow surface
  2. The sky turns black while the snow glows
  3. Everything looks closer and sharper than it really is

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  1. NSIDC Cryosphere Glossary: whiteout nsidc.org/learn/cryosphere-glossary/whiteout Checked 2026-10-10.

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