Snowflakes

5 Cool things about snow

There are four classes of snowflake: dendrites, columns, needles, rimes

• Dendrite snowflakes have 6 points
• Column snowflakes have 6 sides, hexagonal
• Needle snowflakes look like needles
  
• Rimed snowflakes are coated with tiny frozen water droplets, from passing through super-cooled clouds
  

Types of Snowflake

Microscope Photos: Snowflake Photomicroscope Gallery
Game: Make-A-Flake
Learn more: Snow wiki

Joke: What do you get when you cross a Vampire with snow?
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