Snowflakes are NOT always symmetrical   Under Geometry it is stated that A snowflake always has six symmetric arms This assertion is simply not true According to Kenneth Libbrecht The rather unattractive irregular crystals are by far the most common variety httpwwwitscaltecheduatomicsnowcrystalsmythsmythshtmperfection Someone really need to take a look at his site and get FACTS off of it because I still see a decent number of falsities on this page forgive me Im new at this and dont want to edit anything