It might be easy to answer, but how does it snow? What temperatures does it have to be at for it to snow? How does snow and snowflakes form? I like winter so much I need to know as much as I can about that season and my favorite holiday, Christmas!
2007-10-22 11:07:28 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
First you need evaporated moisture rising from the ocean into the sky. Then the moisture condenses and forms clouds. Then when there's a surplus of moisture in the atmosphere. It gets too heavy for the clouds to hold the moisture. So then it falls and forms a supercooled cloud drop. Then as it lowers it turns into a ice particle then an ice crystal (the ice that falls during an ice storm) then it forms into a snowflake. Usually 3C/38F is the cutoff temperature for snow to reach the ground. You shouldn't expect a significant storm with this high of a temperature you'll at least get flurries. If the temperature is above 3C/38F then the snow will most likely melt and turn into rain. The strangest snowstorm I've ever seen was April 2006 in the New York City area. It was about 10C/50F out and I was just looking out the window there and I saw flurries falling. That's the warmest temperature I've ever seen snow in. Don't expect it. All the weather patterns just happened to fall in the right place and the chances are very very small.
2007-10-22 13:07:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Snow is a solid precipitation which occurs in a variety of minute ice crystals at temperature well below 0 (zero) degree celcius,but as larger snowflakes at temperatures near (not below) zero degree celcius.
2007-10-23 15:09:59 · answer #2 · answered by Arasan 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well it has to be 32 degrees F 0 degrees C . Its basically rain that got frozen.
2007-10-22 18:32:53 · answer #3 · answered by Amber[[: 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋