how is snow formed?

Answer 1

water vapor freezes, and falls to Earth

Answer 2

Snow is precipitation in the form of crystalline water ice, consisting of a multitude of snowflakes. Since it is composed of small ice particles it is a granular material. It has an open and therefore soft structure, unless packed by external pressure.
Snow forms if the air in a cloud is below freezing. The water vapour then turns to ice instead of rain and the tiny ice crystals stick together until they form snowflakes. When they get heavy enough to fall, they drop out of the clouds. At this point though, we still don’t know whether they will end up as rain or remain as snow. This depends on the temperature of the air they travel through on the way down to the ground. If it gets warmer, they turn into rain, but if the air stays close to freezing all the way down, then the snowflakes will make it without melting and so fall as snow. If this occurs in a mountain area, it is possible for snow to be falling on the mountaintop while lower down in the valley the air is warmer and so it is raining instead.

Answer 3

Snow, transparent ice crystals formed around dust or other small particulates in the atmosphere when water vapor condenses at temperatures below the freezing point. Partly melted crystals usually cling together to form snowflakes, which may in rare cases grow in size up to 7 to 10 cm (3 to 4 in) in diameter.

Answer 4

Snow is precipitation in the form of crystalline water ice, consisting of a multitude of snowflakes. Since it is composed of small ice particles it is a granular material. It has an open and therefore soft structure, unless packed by external pressure.

Answer 5

In six sided flakes! Usually a particle of dust serves as the nucleation surface for the precipitation of the crystal of frost (ice) that becomes a snowflake.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Snow is soft boiled rain

Answer 8

With a snow cannon at a ski resort.

Answer 9

water vapour condenses rapidly (faster than when forming rain) around an impurity this creates a crystal (ice) and due to structure of H20 (water) forms into hexagonal shapes...it gets too heavy and falls to earth

Answer 10

It is raining but it is so cold that the rain freezes into snow.