Let it snow: the science of snowflakes
Dec 15, 2021
2 minutes
Snowflakes are formed by what meteorologists call the Bergeron Process, named for 20th-century Swedish weatherman Tor Bergeron. Cloud with a temperature between 0˚ and -20˚C or below contains super-cooled water, ice crystals and water in a gas state. When the super-cooled water encounters a microscopic ice crystal (sometimes fixed around a high-flying pollen, ash, bacterial or
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