7 Snow Type (Different size,temperature,and shape)

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Snow is water that falls from the clouds that had been frozen into a solid and like rain. Snow consists of water vapor particles are cooled in the air above, and then fall to earth as a piece of soft, white, and like crystal.

At a certain temperature (called freezing point, 0 ° Celsius, 32 ° Fahrenheit), normal snow melt and disappear. Process as snow / ice changes directly into water vapor without melting first called sublimes. Opponent process called deposition. The following are the basic forms of snow.

1. Prism

Prism shape is very thin so it is difficult to see by eye. looks like a wooden pencil.
 
2. Stellar Plates



Snowflake shape is thin. Resembling a plate with six broad arms resemble stars. Usually decorated with symmetrical markings. Formed when the temperature is near -2 C (28 F) or near -15 C (5F) snow crystal morphology diagram.
 
3. Sectored Plates


Typical mountain that leads to the angles between adjacent facet prism. sides divided into six equal parts.
 
4. Stellar dendrites


Dendrite means "like a tree", so stellar dendrite snow crystal is a plate that has branches.The size is quite large, with a diameter of 2-4 mm. These crystals are easily seen with the naked eye.
 
5. Fernlike Stellar dendrites


The shape resembles a fern. snow crystal is the largest snow crystals with a size of 5 mm or more.
 
6. Hollow Columns


Cone-shaped tube with a hole in it. is small and thus require a magnifying glass to see it.
 
7. Needles


Ice crystals formed at a temperature of 5 C (23 F). If we see with the naked eye will resemble a small gray hair.