If you’ve ever Googled “Snow in Ooty,” you’ve entered a rabbit hole of confusion. As someone who just returned from a freezing trip to the Nilgiris, let me clear the air once and for all.

But here is the science: Snow falls as soft, crystalline flakes. In Ooty, when it gets cold, the moisture in the clouds freezes instantly upon touching the ground or trees. That is (if it’s hard pellets) or Hoar Frost (the fluffy white stuff on leaves).

The short answer is No. Not really. The long answer is complicated. Ooty has never recorded a proper, settled snowfall (the kind where you make snow angels or build a snowman) in recorded history. Unlike its Himalayan cousins (Shimla, Manali, or Gulmarg), Ooty is in the Western Ghats—a different mountain range altogether.

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