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Post number 14275

Su — Tue, 29 Jan 2002 13:51:10 -0800

More than you ever wanted to know about snow, from the physics of formation to just priddy pictures.
[Link via CuriousLee]

By: kokogiak

kokogiak — Tue, 29 Jan 2002 14:02:55 -0800

It is snowing outside my window this very moment (Amazon.com PacMed Bldg - Seattle, WA). Flurries! Physics in action! Panic in Seattle!

By: ajbattrick

ajbattrick — Tue, 29 Jan 2002 15:14:57 -0800

I thought this was going to be about snow that you see on TV when there's no reception. I was wondering how you could have priddy pictures of random interference. That'll teach me to read between the lines.

By: riffola

riffola — Tue, 29 Jan 2002 16:11:11 -0800

Interesting stuff

By: MiguelCardoso

MiguelCardoso — Tue, 29 Jan 2002 16:49:13 -0800

A lovely site. Thanks, Su. Kokogiak: you lucky bastard! I was 19 the first time I saw snow. Of course I'd read about it and seen it in films but it still took a long time for me to realize what was happening. This was in Manchester, England. I went out and acted like Snoopy, dancing open-mouthed. It was never the same again, natch. Snow is a first time thing. And it gets uglier the older it gets.

By: whatnotever

whatnotever — Tue, 29 Jan 2002 17:16:05 -0800

Sweet. I've always wondered how the molecules on each arm manage to coordinate with the others; that is, why do the crystals grow differently between each flake, but almost exactly the same along each arm. And now I know!

By: normy

normy — Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:48:44 -0800

From the earliest memories of our childhood, many of us can remember hearing the phrase "no two snowflakes are alike". This discovery was made in the small rural town of Jericho, Vermont by Wilson A. Bentley (1865-1931).

By: realjanetkagan

realjanetkagan — Tue, 29 Jan 2002 19:38:28 -0800

Su: The site still hasn't told me *more* than I ever wanted to know about snow ;)---mostly it keeps peaking my curiosity---but I hope some day these folks will tell me the ALL of what I want to know about snow. Heads up, everybody: This site asks for your observations. I think they're serious about it if you are. normy: Thanks for Bentley link. There's stuff here that isn't in the Dover reprint of his book. WHY??? ---If somebody can write a make-your-own-fractals program, why can't somebody write a make-your-own-snowflakes program? All these pretty little programs floating about the net and there's not a one that will let me crystalize my own virtual snowflake? Somebody's falling down on the job!