Chris Bowring hangs snowflakes in the window of Maury River Senior Services in December - a prelude to a wintry season. Despite the cold temperatures, it is warm and welcoming inside. Area residents ...
Snowflakes are like letters from the sky, each crystal a note describing the atmosphere as it falls to the ground. They float effortlessly, but their creation is one of nature’s most complicated ...
You'll see that snowflakes come in an array of different shapes and structures. To start, extremely cold water droplets in a cloud freeze onto bits of dust, dirt, and pollen in the clouds ...
To explain why snowflakes look the way they do, we first need to understand how they form. For a snowflake to form there needs to be condensation nuclei present. Condensation nuclei is typically a ...