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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why does the world feel quieter when it snows?

Just a Canadian waiting for the bus when it dawned on me how quiet it was.
gpt
It's harder for sound to travel through the air when there is snow in it. Same thing is true when it rains (but you might not notice it as the rain itself makes a lot of noise)

Also the snow already on the ground also works like sound dampening. As the sound can bounce much easier on the hard ground than the soft snow.