Snowflakes A Closer look at Snowflakes About this time of year a lot of folks start thinking about snow. Most people will admit that the first lazy floating snowflakes of winter are a pretty sight. Its only after we've had a half dozen snowstorms that we start looking at snow with less than kind thoughts. He not only loved it, he studied it.
Snowflakes are actually pretty neat.
They are much more than just frozen rain as many people think. Instead they are made up of as many of 180 billion molecules of water. When the water freezes, it creates snowflakes out of crystals. Just as with raindrops, a snowflake begins as a droplet of water which condenses on a speck of dust. If the cloud temperature stays below freezing, enough droplets will freeze and collect to form a snowflake.