* Irene's Country Corner * - The Snow

 

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Do you know why it snows ?

© Irene. Not for download. Please, visit Graphics by Irene if you like this graphic.In cooler parts of the planet, away from the Equator line, clouds can stretch up into air which is below freezing. These clouds are a mixture of water droplets, lower down, and ice crystals and special supercooled water droplets higher up. At the bottom of the cloud, millions of tiny water droplets collide to form big droplets, which collide forming bigger ones. This process is called coalescence. Another process called accretion happens higher up. The ice crystals attract the supercooled droplets, which freeze onto them. As the crystals grow and stick to others, they form snowflakes which fall as snow when heavy and if the temperature on the ground is freezing.

 

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Page created on: December 28th 2001.
Last updated on: July 6th 2003
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Graphics by Irene ~ Snow Script from Dynamic Drive ~
~Midi: "Let it Snow", from
ABC's of Faith Midi Collection ~

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