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Snow is a form of precipitation like rain and sleet.

To snow the temperature must be below 32 degrees.

Snowflakes actually start as tiny ice crystals that form from water vapor that freezes in the atmosphere.

The size of a snowflake depends on how many ice crystals connect together.

Each snowflake is made up of about 200 ice crystals.

Snowflakes have six sides.

There is no scientific proof that no two snowflakes aren't exactly alike.

On average snowflakes fall from the sky at 3-4 miles per hour.

Close to 80% of the worlds fresh water supply comes from snow and ice.

Snow is not actually white but clear. Snow looks white because of the way the light reflects off of the ice crystals.

Snow didn't always look white. When coal was used widespread in factories and homes a lot of coal dust traveled through the air. The coal dust was absorbed in the clouds and when it snowed it often looked gray from the air pollution.

Thundersnow is when it snows while it is thunder and lightning.

Watermelon snow is snow with algae growing on it. The algae is a reddish color. It is mostly found in the Canadian Rockies.

On average there are around 105 snowstorms a year that hit the US.

Snow at the North and South Poles reflect heat into space. The snow acts like a mirror from the sun. The light bounces off of the snow and travels into space.

Heavy snowfalls are called snowstorms.

Heavy snowfalls with high winds over 35 miles per hour with limited visibility are called blizzards.

Billions of snowflakes fall is every snowstorm.

When the weatherman predicts a blizzard is coming people buy more cakes, candy and cookies than any other food.

The most snowfall over a year was in Mount Rainier in the state of Washington. It snowed 1,224 inches from February 19th 1971- February 19th 1972.

The most snow to fall in a 24 hour period was 76 inches in Silver Lake Colorado in 1921.

The largest snowman was 122 feet tall. It was built-in Maine in 2008.

The largest snow sculpture ever built was in Heilongjiang Province China in 2008. It was 656 feet long and 115 feet tall. It took 600 sculptors from 40 countries to build it.

The snowiest place in the US is Stampede Pass in Washington State. On Average it snows 430 inches a year.

The Wapusk Trail holds the Guinness Book of World Record for the longest seasonal winter road (Only functional during winter months). It is 467 miles long and connects Gillam Monitoba to Peawanuk Ontario Canada. The road closes in late March when the weather gets warmer.

The most popular activity for kids to do in the snow is to build a snowman!

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What is Snow Made of? Snowflake Facts for Kids

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Snow is a form of precipitation like rain and sleet.

To snow the temperature must be below 32 degrees.

Snowflakes actually start as tiny ice crystals that form from water vapor that freezes in the atmosphere.

The size of a snowflake depends on how many ice crystals connect together.

Each snowflake is made up of about 200 ice crystals.

Snowflakes have six sides.

There is no scientific proof that no two snowflakes aren't exactly alike.

On average snowflakes fall from the sky at 3-4 miles per hour.

Close to 80% of the worlds fresh water supply comes from snow and ice.

Snow is not actually white but clear. Snow looks white because of the way the light reflects off of the ice crystals.

Snow didn't always look white. When coal was used widespread in factories and homes a lot of coal dust traveled through the air. The coal dust was absorbed in the clouds and when it snowed it often looked gray from the air pollution.

Thundersnow is when it snows while it is thunder and lightning.

Watermelon snow is snow with algae growing on it. The algae is a reddish color. It is mostly found in the Canadian Rockies.

On average there are around 105 snowstorms a year that hit the US.

Snow at the North and South Poles reflect heat into space. The snow acts like a mirror from the sun. The light bounces off of the snow and travels into space.

Heavy snowfalls are called snowstorms.

Heavy snowfalls with high winds over 35 miles per hour with limited visibility are called blizzards.

Billions of snowflakes fall is every snowstorm.

When the weatherman predicts a blizzard is coming people buy more cakes, candy and cookies than any other food.

The most snowfall over a year was in Mount Rainier in the state of Washington. It snowed 1,224 inches from February 19th 1971- February 19th 1972.

The most snow to fall in a 24 hour period was 76 inches in Silver Lake Colorado in 1921.

The largest snowman was 122 feet tall. It was built-in Maine in 2008.

The largest snow sculpture ever built was in Heilongjiang Province China in 2008. It was 656 feet long and 115 feet tall. It took 600 sculptors from 40 countries to build it.

The snowiest place in the US is Stampede Pass in Washington State. On Average it snows 430 inches a year.

The Wapusk Trail holds the Guinness Book of World Record for the longest seasonal winter road (Only functional during winter months). It is 467 miles long and connects Gillam Monitoba to Peawanuk Ontario Canada. The road closes in late March when the weather gets warmer.

The most popular activity for kids to do in the snow is to build a snowman!

Check out this:

Water Bottle Snowflake Craft Click Here

DYI Prentend Snow Recipes Click Here

Prentend Snow Recipes/Activities

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What is Snow Made of? Snowflake Facts for Kids

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Snowflakes and snow crystals are basically the same, a crystal is one tiny bit of ice, snowflakes are many snow crystals stuck together. Check out the facts about snowflakes below!

Many of us love to see the first piece of snow in the winter, although wish it would only stop at the one snowflake.

Snowflakes are not frozen raindrops. Frozen raindrops are known as sleet. Snow crystals are formed when water vapour freezes, which all happens up in the clouds.

Snowflakes are also formed in the clouds, this happens when water droplets freeze and become ice particles. Water vapour in the cloud assembles on the ice particle, causes it to stretch into a basic hexagonal prism and then to shoot branches to create a more difficult and complex shape, once this has happened snowflakes then change even more to make them unique. The temperature and dampness of the cloud constantly changes, which affects the shape of each snowflake. Although snowflakes can change shape so quickly, the hexagonal symmetry is kept.

"Snowflakes can be categorized into six main types, plate (flat), column, stars, dendrite, lacy, needle, and capped column. When it is extremely cold the snow is very fine and powdery and snowflakes become quite simple in design, usually needle or rod shaped. When the temperature is near to freezing point (0 degrees Celsius), snowflakes become much larger and a lot more complex in design". There are 35 main snowflakes which you could recognise from just looking closely at.

"It is indeed extremely unlikely that two complex snowflakes will look exactly alike. It's so extremely unlikely; in fact, that even if you looked at every one ever made you would not find any exact duplicates".

According to the Guinness World Records, the largest snowflake in the world was 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick. This was recorded in January 1887 by somebody called Matt Coleman at Fort Keogh, Montana, he said that the snowflake was "larger than milk pans".

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Snowflakes and snow crystals are basically the same, a crystal is one tiny bit of ice, snowflakes are many snow crystals stuck together. Check out the facts about snowflakes below! Many of us love to see the first piece of snow in the winter, although wish it would only stop at the one snowflake.

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A snowflake is a single ice crystal that has achieved a sufficient size, and may have amalgamated with others, then 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.

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Snowflakes and snow crystals are basically the same, a crystal is one tiny bit of ice, snowflakes are many snow crystals stuck together. Check out the facts about snowflakes below!

Many of us love to see the first piece of snow in the winter, although wish it would only stop at the one snowflake.

Snowflakes are not frozen raindrops. Frozen raindrops are known as sleet. Snow crystals are formed when water vapour freezes, which all happens up in the clouds.

Snowflakes are also formed in the clouds, this happens when water droplets freeze and become ice particles. Water vapour in the cloud assembles on the ice particle, causes it to stretch into a basic hexagonal prism and then to shoot branches to create a more difficult and complex shape, once this has happened snowflakes then change even more to make them unique. The temperature and dampness of the cloud constantly changes, which affects the shape of each snowflake. Although snowflakes can change shape so quickly, the hexagonal symmetry is kept.

"Snowflakes can be categorized into six main types, plate (flat), column, stars, dendrite, lacy, needle, and capped column. When it is extremely cold the snow is very fine and powdery and snowflakes become quite simple in design, usually needle or rod shaped. When the temperature is near to freezing point (0 degrees Celsius), snowflakes become much larger and a lot more complex in design". There are 35 main snowflakes which you could recognise from just looking closely at.

"It is indeed extremely unlikely that two complex snowflakes will look exactly alike. It's so extremely unlikely; in fact, that even if you looked at every one ever made you would not find any exact duplicates".

According to the Guinness World Records, the largest snowflake in the world was 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick. This was recorded in January 1887 by somebody called Matt Coleman at Fort Keogh, Montana, he said that the snowflake was "larger than milk pans".

The Space Station circles the earth every 90 minutes.

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Snowflakes and snow crystals are basically the same, a crystal is one tiny bit of ice, snowflakes are many snow crystals stuck together. Check out the facts about snowflakes below!

Many of us love to see the first piece of snow in the winter, although wish it would only stop at the one snowflake.

Snowflakes are not frozen raindrops. Frozen raindrops are known as sleet. Snow crystals are formed when water vapour freezes, which all happens up in the clouds.

Snowflakes are also formed in the clouds, this happens when water droplets freeze and become ice particles. Water vapour in the cloud assembles on the ice particle, causes it to stretch into a basic hexagonal prism and then to shoot branches to create a more difficult and complex shape, once this has happened snowflakes then change even more to make them unique. The temperature and dampness of the cloud constantly changes, which affects the shape of each snowflake. Although snowflakes can change shape so quickly, the hexagonal symmetry is kept.

"Snowflakes can be categorized into six main types, plate (flat), column, stars, dendrite, lacy, needle, and capped column. When it is extremely cold the snow is very fine and powdery and snowflakes become quite simple in design, usually needle or rod shaped. When the temperature is near to freezing point (0 degrees Celsius), snowflakes become much larger and a lot more complex in design". There are 35 main snowflakes which you could recognise from just looking closely at.

"It is indeed extremely unlikely that two complex snowflakes will look exactly alike. It's so extremely unlikely; in fact, that even if you looked at every one ever made you would not find any exact duplicates".

According to the Guinness World Records, the largest snowflake in the world was 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick. This was recorded in January 1887 by somebody called Matt Coleman at Fort Keogh, Montana, he said that the snowflake was "larger than milk pans".

The Space Station circles the earth every 90 minutes.

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Posted by Bethany Johnson, guest blogger

Some of nature's coolest elements are sitting right on your doormat. A little flurry can provide tons of interesting fun for kids, especially following that first snowflake.

Beyond the novelty of this wintry icon, a host of interesting facts can dazzle young snow-dwellers long after the season's first dusting. To get a handle on some of the best facts about snowflakes, I caught up with Ken Libbrecht, Caltech physicist, author of a half-dozen books about snowflakes, and founder of SnowCrystals.com. Here are seven neat tidbits you can share with your kids.

They're Not All Different!

Yep, it's a myth. Contrary to popular belief, there can be two of the same snowflake. In fact, Libbrecht demonstrates how this is the case in his own lab. When the conditions are just so, "identical twins" can be produced.

They Can Get Pretty Big

Some sources claim to have up to fifteen-inch snowflakes on file. Libbrecht, however, says it was likely a puff ball, or an amalgamation of many snowflakes that banded together as they condensed. A true monster crystal is likely a little smaller than a penny, which is still pretty impressive given the fragility of the average snowflake.

Snowflakes Aren't White

Snow crystals are completely transparent, but they reflect light so well that many of them together (say, an inch or two high on the pavement) appear white. Deep snow may look blue, and in certain areas of wetland, algae runoff may even lend a barely visible pink tint to a flake-filled snowfall.

Some Snowflakes Don't Look Like Snowflakes

Next time it snows, join your kids outside and watch your coat sleeve; you'll likely catch some cool shapes that are wildly different from the iconic star flake you expect to see. Formations may include triangular or hexagonal plates and long columnar snow crystals, some of which can come out hollow. To identify the latter, just look for what appear to be tiny white hairs-not the average snowflake-on your sleeve or glove.

Seeing Snow Is Still Pretty Rare

About half of the world's population has never seen snow-most of which are (not surprisingly) in the southern hemisphere, according to NASA's Earth Observatory. It's been estimated that almost as many people won't experience the joys of this fluffy stuff in their own backyard. Geographic, economic, and social barriers prevent many of those who live in tropical areas from traveling to snowy places, and those once-in-a-lifetime weather events that do afford the occasional flurry are just that: rare. Keep in mind much of today's climatology also considers global warming and snow fall to be related, causing this estimate to rise in the future.

We Still Don't Understand Snow Crystals

Libbrecht's website shows a diagram that explains how humidity and temperature work together to create different types of snowflakes. "Go ahead," he coaxes readers, "take a closer look." It is definitely remarkable that, per this infographic, you can probably tell your family which shapes of snowflake will accumulate on their eyelashes should they step outside on a winter evening. Even more remarkable, however, is that although scientists can tell us how they develop, they still have yet to figure out why the molecules do exactly what they do. Beautiful they may be, their formation is still a mystery.

Snowflakes Aren't Just Frozen Rain Drops

Rain that freezes before it hits the ground is called sleet. Snow crystals are ice that has transformed from vapor, not water. The more vapor that condenses as the crystal travels through clouds, the more branching you'll see.

If your children are insatiably curious, they might just be a young physicist in the making. The science that Libbrecht and like-minded researchers perform is called curiosity-driven investigation, and it's for the sake of knowing-that's it! Knowing is worth the effort of learning, and for kids, these natural "wow" moments are more than just worth it when buried in a few nifty facts about snowflakes.

"I always like to encourage people-adults as well as children-to go outside and take a close look at the falling snow," says Libbrecht. "A small magnifier can reveal all sorts of fascinating structures you never knew existed. But dress warmly; the best snowflakes often appear in the coldest weather."

Playing with nature's prettiest products is the best way to encourage young conservationists to care for the planet. When you dazzle the next generation with cool facts, it's more than just for fun; they're more likely to make choices on behalf of their environment.

How do you celebrate the miracle of snowflakes? Games? Crafts? Post a picture and tag @TomsofMaine!

Image source: Bethany Johnson | Flickr
This article was brought to you by Tom's of Maine. The views and opinions expressed by the author do not reflect the position of Tom's of Maine.

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Posted by Bethany Johnson, guest blogger Some of nature's coolest elements are sitting right on your doormat. A little flurry can provide tons of interesting fun for kids, especially following that first snowflake. Beyond the novelty of this wintry icon, a host of interesting facts can dazzle young snow-dwellers long after the season's first dusting.

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Snow isn't just made up of snowflakes.
Snow is also made of sleet, which is created when snowflakes pass through the atmosphere and melt a little by the time they hit the ground.

Each snowflake is not unique.

It's a myth. Identical snowflakes have been found before and each snowflake has six sides because the molecules that make them up are hexagon-shaped.
Snowflakes are not at all white.
They are actually translucent, where light is reflected rather than passed through. Because of the snowflake's tiny surface, the light scatters in so many directions that it can't absorb or reflect consistently, and the color comes back as white.

We get a lot of it every year.

At least 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (1 septillion) ice crystals fall from the sky in the U.S. alone.
Though appearances can be deceiving.
One inch of snow makes about 1/10 of an inch of water.
And it's all drinkable.
At least 80 percent of freshwater is frozen, made of either ice or snow.

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Snowflakes are fun to watch falling down from the sky, but how much do you know about them? Accuweather explains some fun facts about the most fun form of precipitation. Snow isn't just made up of snowflakes. Snow is also made of sleet, which is created when snowflakes pass through the atmosphere and melt a little by the time they hit the ground.

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Snowflakes and snow crystals are basically the same, a crystal is one tiny bit of ice, snowflakes are many snow crystals stuck together. Check out the facts about snowflakes below!

Many of us love to see the first piece of snow in the winter, although wish it would only stop at the one snowflake.

Snowflakes are not frozen raindrops. Frozen raindrops are known as sleet. Snow crystals are formed when water vapour freezes, which all happens up in the clouds.

Snowflakes are also formed in the clouds, this happens when water droplets freeze and become ice particles. Water vapour in the cloud assembles on the ice particle, causes it to stretch into a basic hexagonal prism and then to shoot branches to create a more difficult and complex shape, once this has happened snowflakes then change even more to make them unique. The temperature and dampness of the cloud constantly changes, which affects the shape of each snowflake. Although snowflakes can change shape so quickly, the hexagonal symmetry is kept.

"Snowflakes can be categorized into six main types, plate (flat), column, stars, dendrite, lacy, needle, and capped column. When it is extremely cold the snow is very fine and powdery and snowflakes become quite simple in design, usually needle or rod shaped. When the temperature is near to freezing point (0 degrees Celsius), snowflakes become much larger and a lot more complex in design". There are 35 main snowflakes which you could recognise from just looking closely at.

"It is indeed extremely unlikely that two complex snowflakes will look exactly alike. It's so extremely unlikely; in fact, that even if you looked at every one ever made you would not find any exact duplicates".

According to the Guinness World Records, the largest snowflake in the world was 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick. This was recorded in January 1887 by somebody called Matt Coleman at Fort Keogh, Montana, he said that the snowflake was "larger than milk pans".

The Space Station circles the earth every 90 minutes.

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Snowflakes and snow crystals are basically the same, a crystal is one tiny bit of ice, snowflakes are many snow crystals stuck together. Check out the facts about snowflakes below! Many of us love to see the first piece of snow in the winter, although wish it would only stop at the one snowflake.