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How about flying in light snow showers that suddenly get heavy and you
end up IFR and then hurting for alternate air when the engine air
filter gets clogged by snow. ...

Watch out for that "not-quite-frozen" stuff. At the correct temperature,
just a fraction of a degree above freezing, snow will react more like
freezing rain, rather than "normal" cold snow.

That is to say, it does not follow the airstream, but will splat and stick.
So a suggestion not to fly too close to the freezing level in snow. Either
stay well down in the above-freezing temperatures.... or go right up into
the cold (where you now have to remain clear of ICGIC, of course).