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As the humidity – or the amount of water vapor in the cloud – increases, some of the ice crystals will grow intricate arms at ...

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With something to grow around, ice crystals begin to form until a snowflake is heavy enough for gravity to pull it down. How ...

The shape of a snowflake is largely determined by the temperature and saturation in the part of the atmosphere where snow forms.

The shape of that crystal structure is largely determined by the temperature and humidity at which the snowflake forms. At ...

If you have ever made a snowflake chain, or watched a holiday movie, you might recall a complex snowflake that many would describe as beautiful. This is one of many different shapes that snowflakes ...

Much like a person’s fingerprints, every snowflake is unique. But how is it that this natural phenomenal produces such variety? Meteorologist Kristen Currie explains in this episode of ...

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That branching process creates what we think of as the characteristic shapes of snowflakes. No two ice crystals take the same path through a cloud. Instead, every ice crystal experiences different ...