atticus dual responses to each of jems questions about the snow reveal his

Atticus does not know much about snow or answeing Jem's climate questions,

Jem asked Atticus would it keep up. Jem had never seen snow either, but he knew what it was. Atticus said he didn’t know any more about snow than Jem did. “I think, though, if it’s watery like that, it’ll turn to rain.”