This week in Anello Answers It, we are answering a question from one of our viewers! William asked if there are different types of snowflakes and if so, what they are and how they form.
There are five main types of snowflakes. They are thin plates, needles, hollow columns, stellar plates, and dendrites. They form based on air temperatures.
Thin plates are formed when the air temperature is between 25 and 32 degrees. Needles form between 25 and 21 degrees, while temperatures down to 14 lead to hollow columns 10 to 14 degree temperatures result in stellar plates, and the most well known type, dendrites from between 3 and 10 degrees.
Once we get colder than that three degree mark, we start to work back up the ladder of flake types. Negative 8 degrees of lightly warmer leads to stellar plates yet again, and below that gives us hollow columns.
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