Snow fall animated gif

Here i began with an image of a snow covered scene.

I created a new document with a white fill. added some noise to the page via filter, and blurb the pixels plus did adjustments to level to keep only the white pixels.

I pasted this layer over the snow scene, duplicated it, made both layers have a blending mode of screen and than used the timeline window to adjust the location of each layer.

And here is the finished piece: