I'm Mateo Elias, the founder and lead writer behind Snow Day Stats. My relationship with snow started the way most people's does — as a kid making lumpy snowmen — but it turned into something much more technical over the past 5 years, split between hands-on snow sculpting projects and an increasingly obsessive interest in macro crystal photography. Somewhere along the way, I stopped just enjoying snow and started needing to understand why it behaved the way it did: why a sculpture that held perfectly overnight collapsed by noon, why some snowflakes photographed as crisp hexagons while others turned into blurry smudges no matter how careful I was.
