One hundred words for snow

It's a popular urban legend that the Inuit have a hundred words for snow.  In fact, they have about the same amount of words the English language does.  Our most basic word is, of course, snow.  But then we have things like blizzard, slush, sleet and flurry which are all ways that provide further explanation of the same concept: snow.  

According to an article at State of the Canadian Cryosphere:

[Boaz] claims Inuits have four distinct root words for snow: aput "snow on the ground", gana "falling snow," piqsirpoq "drifting snow" and qimuqsuq "a snow drift".

So all those hundreds and indefinite amount of words relating to snow are derived from the four basic roots, same as most languages.   Further reading here.