Can you make snow with particals?

I was thinking about particals and I started to wonder if you could do realistic, fluffy, fallen snow using them?

i think there is a way to make particles stick to surfaces that they collide with, but i am not sure how to do it. I know that the fluid simulator does it to fake foam using particles.

I was mostly thinking of already fallen snow, I’m not doing animation at this point, but that could be useful if I do… I’m was just thinking that if you can do snow in particles, it would probably be the most realistic way to make it ‘fluffy.’