how comes it snows, what makes snow?

Answer 1

Snow forms when the atmospheric temperature is at or below freezing (0 Celsius or 32 Fahrenheit) and there is a minimum amount of moisture in the air. If the ground temperature is at or below freezing, of course the snow will reach the ground.

However, the snow can still reach the ground when the ground temperature is above freezing if the conditions are just right. In this case, snowflakes will begin to melt as they reach this warmer temperature layer; the melting creates evaporative cooling which cools the air immediately around the snow flake.This cooling retards melting. As a general rule, though, snow will not form if the groud temperature is 5 degrees Celsius (41 deg Fahrenheit).

Snow forms in the atmosphere, not at the surface. So snow can fall when surface temperatures are above freezing as long as atmospheric temperatures are below freezing and the air contains a minimum moisture level (the exact level varies according to temperature).

Answer 2

Snow is just rain except when it gets to a certain temperature the rain turns into snow. If it gets too cold it becomes hail.

Answer 3

Snow is just frozen rain. So the same way water makes ice, rain makes snow.

Answer 4

snow is basically wtaer molecules that have frozen and become haevy. When the clouds are too heavy they release the water(snow). Plus the cold weather freezes the water molecules that is why it doesn't snow in the summer

Answer 5

Moisture in the air freezes at high altitudes. Then, the snow flakes fall to Earth.

Answer 6

It has to be the right temp so we can get snow, if its too warm no snow and too cold then we get hail to we want snow.

Answer 7

It is rain that is not frozen enough to be ice.