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The Slow 5 Step Creation Of A Snowflake
The transformation of a drop of water into perfection
I love snowflakes. I have loved snowflakes since the very first time I experienced one. When I was a little kid growing up in the Bronx one of the most depressing things for me was having Christmas, or New Year’s arrive and having a complete absence of snow.
Recently, it has snowed a bit here in Ontario where I am stuck in the Covid lockdown. I like information and knowledge in general and Covid has given me the free time to look stuff up online. Tonight I chose snowflakes. Reading about these little miracles kept me busy for three hours since all I really knew about them is that no two snowflakes are alike and they are truly beautiful.
This is what I learned.
A snowflake is a single ice crystal that has grown large enough and may have connected with others, then falls through the Earth’s atmosphere as snow.
How snowflake becomes a “snowflake”.
1. Each flake forms around a dust particle in supersaturated air masses.
2. It does this by attracting sub-freezing cloud water droplets.
