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Snowflakes - aggregations of snow crystals - can grow to astonishing proportions. Many have encountered big fluffy snow-wads that piff! into your face, when co
by JoeAltmaier 3y ago
Snowflakes - aggregations of snow crystals - can grow to astonishing proportions.
Many have encountered big fluffy snow-wads that piff! into your face, when conditions are right - little wind, near freezing, high precipitation.
I've seen 'snow cones', which are little snow-wads that have been formed by upper atmosphere conditions into cone-shaped aggregates, point down, spiraling slowly in a marvelous flotilla of adorable tiny snow ballerinas!
Maybe 2 inches tall!
- sandworm101 3y agoDrive through British Columbia in the winter, west to east from Vancouver. Vancouver is always well above freezing, the BC interior well below. You will witness all manner of snow conditions very quickly as you gain altitude. Somewhere between coastal rain and the dry snow of the interior you will hit peak-snowflake. Asymmetric 2-inch wide snow things on your windscreen is unusual but not abnormal. When standing in it you can almost see them knock into each other to become bigger. As you drive higher it will quickly tapper off into smaller flakes, as the winds get faster and the air drier. But those fat flakes are always a bad sign, an indication that the road will soon close for avalanche mitigation work: the army blasting the mountains with artillery. Like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiJXzlIaaCA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiJXzlIaaCA
- fsckboy 3y ago>Snowflakes - aggregations of snow crystals - can grow to astonishing proportions. the snowflakes of "no two snowflakes are alike" are hexagonally symmetric, i.e. they are single crystals.
- JoeAltmaier 3y agoThe OP distinguished between snow crystals and snowflakes in this way.