Originally Posted by
Beerknurd
Explain to me what snow is again???
What is snow?
When it snow, the snowflakes grown to ice crystals as become a lump on its way from the clouds. They can contain 1-1000 ice crystals. One ice crystal is one millimetres big and contains of millions and billions of water molecules. The ice crystal is born into the clouds as a six angular crystal plate around one dirt particle. The crystal grow when it pass through the cold air. The colder it is the faster grow the ice crystal. Also a different temperature makes the crystal to grow on different ways. Below -15 degree new arms are created on the crystal, as a star. Over -15 below zero new six angular plates are created. Because the ice crystals take different ways, they all become unique like we peoples.
Beerknurd, when the snow reaches the earth it comes in a form like flakes. It can snow and the flakes are very small but also large. Large flakes fill the surface fast and it can snow so hard so during the night we can get 20-30 cm and more. If it blows hard the snow can create snowdrifts. When it happen much of the snow is on one place and the rest of the surface have lesser snow.
Wet snow is very tough and hard to remove. But wet or dry it is always white and good for skiing and both small boys and girls runs their small sledges down a moderate hill.
Many get skis as Christmas present and if we not have any snow they got disappointed.
One hand with dry snow is very light. Is the snow wet it is easy take a handful snow and make a snowball of it or a snowman. We have something as we call “Snowballs war” when the youngest makes snowballs and throw it on to each other.
Hope it help you understand little what snow is
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