NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Snow flurries flurries fell across parts of Middle Tennessee Wednesday morning. Even though the light snow didn’t cause any impacts, they did stick around long enough for ...
With more smartphones equipped with macro lenses, you no longer need to haul around a big camera to capture decent views of delicate snowflakes. Look for where they tumble down across cold windshields ...
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Snowflake Formation

Have you ever wondered how snowflakes form in the atmosphere? Snowflakes are quite complex productions of our weather that we are all too familiar with here in the Four States. In this video you can ...
This is essentially crystal formation. Snowflakes form when water droplets attach to particles in the sky, like dust or pollen. This creates a six-sided shape. The particles fall through different ...
Jason wants to know how snowflakes form. Snow consists of clear or cloudy ice particles in the form of individual crystals, small pellets or flakes. Flakes are caused by the gathering together of ...
In 1887, a rancher named Matt Coleman spotted huge snowflakes that had fallen onto one of his cattle pastures in western Montana during a snowstorm and declared them as "larger than milk pans." With a ...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Snowflakes form when a cold water droplet freezes onto particulates (like dust or pollen) in the atmosphere, creating an ice crystal. As the ice crystal falls through the sky, ...
There are two ways snow can begin to form in clouds. When the air is very cold (less than -40 degrees C) water vapor will convert directly to ice, through a process called "homogeneous nucleation." At ...