Every year we always find ourselves making snowflakes for house decorations during the Christmas season. Most of the time I go a bit further and make some 3D snowflakes. Plenty of websites have designs and directions you can use to make these. And, really they don't take much more time or involvement than some of the normally cut-out snowflakes would take. There are numerous designs you can follow too. Happy snowflake making! You have to give the 3D snowflakes a try!
A snowflake is either a single ice crystal or an aggregation of ice crystals which falls through the Earth's atmosphere as snow. Each flake nucleates around a dust particle in supersaturated air masses by attracting supercooled cloud water droplets, which freeze and accrete in crystal form. Complex shapes emerge as the flake moves through differing temperature and humidity zones in the atmosphere, such that individual snowflakes differ in detail from one another, but may be categorized in eight broad classifications and at least 80 individual variants. The main constituent shapes for ice crystals, from which combinations may occur, are needle, column, plate and rime. Snowflakes appear white in color despite being made of clear ice. This is due to diffuse reflection of the whole spectrum of light by the small crystal facets.
Once snowflakes land and accumulate, they undergo metamorphosis with changes in temperature and coalesce into a snowpack. The characteristics of the snowpack reflect the changed nature of the constituent snow crystals.
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