Facts About Snowflakes
Snowflakes are beautiful when falling from the sky, and most of us love to see the first snow of winter. That’s before winter sets in to the point where we’re trapped inside our homes, unable to traverse the driveway, or sloshing through muck downtown. When we see the first snowflakes of the season it starts all over again - first with wonderment and delight. (For most of us - your mileage may vary.)
To see some amazing closeups of snowflakes, drift over to Cal Tech’s snowflake lab: Snowflake and Snow Crystal Photographs. There are three snowflake galleries to sift through in reverie, thinking about how perfect and beautiful the world really is.
Snow crystals are made of frozen water and that’s all. They can float into your yard alone, or with their buddies, in a huge snowflake. They are formed by water vapors in the clouds freezing. This is different than sleet, which is merely frozen rain. Sleet doesn’t have the beautiful crystalline formations found in snowflakes.
Snowflakes are all six-sided. They start as hexagonal shapes, then grow, forming an infinite variety of designs to delight us.
You might want to check out my Squidoo lens on Wilson Bentley, the Snowflake Man from Jericho, VT.
http://www.squidoo.com/snowflakeman
The Cal Tech photos are beautiful.
Comment by MobyD — Saturday, November 22, 2008 @ 11:15 pm
Thanks for the post! There is so much information and good photos about it.
Are you still a vegetarian? Just wondering…
Comment by Spanish Steps — Sunday, November 23, 2008 @ 12:11 pm
Very nice blog Linda. Your way of life is amazing. I can’t even imagine not to eat meat, chickens and humbergers or not having a mobile…
Cheers, Tom
Comment by tom — Wednesday, November 26, 2008 @ 4:18 am
thank you for ur info..
unfortunately, i haven’t see snowflake yet…
huhuhu
Comment by chicha — Tuesday, December 2, 2008 @ 8:10 am
Snow Crystals look awesome and Snowflakes has good variety of designs, overall your blog is good at various designs.
Comment by Nichole — Wednesday, December 3, 2008 @ 12:38 am
nice info.
Comment by sandy — Friday, December 5, 2008 @ 2:15 am
i like this blog..
you have nice blog..:D
Comment by sabiq — Thursday, January 1, 2009 @ 2:11 pm
I live in Canada. I know all I need to know about snowflakes, lol
Comment by Peter Morrow — Friday, January 2, 2009 @ 5:48 pm
I live in UAE Dubai and i have never seen what snowflakes are. I wish it would be snow fall in UAE too.
Comment by Web Development Duabi — Monday, January 12, 2009 @ 6:44 am
@ Web Development Dubai.. good luck with your web development business. I used to own a web design business… now I give tips on how to start one - ideal for a stay-at-home type worker in need of extra cash. Anyhow, that’s not what I was going to say to you! I meant to say: be careful what you wish for… the earth’s axis could turn and then you might be snowed on regularly!
Comment by Linda — Wednesday, January 14, 2009 @ 3:16 am
@ SpanishSteps - yes, I’m still a vegetarian and am slowly inching my way toward being a vegan like Seth Godin. I see you’ve got a nice vegetarian blog… way to go!
Comment by Linda — Wednesday, January 14, 2009 @ 3:18 am
Snow flaks are awesome. i also love to watch the first snow. but i had a very very bad experience of show crystals.
Comment by Jingle — Thursday, January 15, 2009 @ 6:23 am
Great site for lot of Information.
Comment by chirs — Thursday, February 19, 2009 @ 11:21 pm
You can make really wonderful pictures with snowflakes. I always enjoy being in the snow when the weather is good. Thanks for this post. Greetz, Laura
Comment by LR — Saturday, March 14, 2009 @ 12:34 am
Wow that is soooo cool!! I don’t think I’ve ever seen it like that before. Call me stupid but I always thought snowflakes that you cut out of paper were just fake… Though I guess you can’t tell without that fancy microscope.
Comment by Sunny — Tuesday, March 17, 2009 @ 6:57 pm
Lovely post…
Past memories of my childhood when I visited Finland with my parents are coming in my mind.
Thanks
Robert
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Thanks,now I have known how snowflake happens.
Comment by Jewelry — Monday, May 4, 2009 @ 7:12 pm
Are the snowflake photos at that lab real? I looks like a crystal to me. It’s unbelievable. By the way, thanks for information.
Comment by L. Winther — Monday, June 8, 2009 @ 10:51 am
it’s very nice to see snowflake, I wish I live at the 4 seasons country :(, nice image
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Yeah it’s good to see Snowflakes coming down especially for kids, they enjoy it a lot. There’s always a natural process behind it and chain of events happening in nature so it’s also good to let your kids know about the facts so they enjoy it even more.
Mark Hostetler
Comment by Sunrise Mountain real estate — Sunday, October 18, 2009 @ 11:31 am
Well it may sound bizarre but once I tried eating snow flakes.Trust me it was not bad at all.Besides it looks very nice.
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