>>3556201>Your focal plane is so limited that there basically is no background.exactly -- if the snow is heavy enough to see individual clumps of snow with texture and shape in the midground, then the background should be hazy white
Snow doesn't just fall on a single focal plane, it falls in front of and behind the subject, and telephoto compression of snow in foreground and background will make it appear as a haze. Even more so at 400mm.