A few favorite snowflake photos

[Judi Lynn]

By Eleanor Imster in EARTH | HUMAN WORLD | January 27, 2019

We asked last week at EarthSky Community Photos for your snowflake images, then sat back and were dazzled by the beautiful and amazing photos you posted!



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More:
https://earthsky.org/earth/best-snowflakes-photos-from-earthsky-friends

[KT2000]

1. really amazing

how beautiful they are.

[thinkingagain]

2. So beautiful

Thank you for the link

[Judi Lynn]

3. So far beyond my understanding. Thank you, thinkingagain. n/t

[Harker]

4. I thought you meant republicans.

Much nicer!

[lillypaddle]

5. LOL nt

[lillypaddle]

6. How can somethings so random

be so symmetrical and perfect?

[flyingfysh]

8. It is because temperature, pressure, and humidity are almost the same for all parts of the snowflake

Those determine how the ice crystals grow, and the flake is small enough that those conditions are almost the same. Any other flake will have a different history for those conditions, and so that flake will look different.

[lillypaddle]

9. Thanks

Nature is simply amazing.

[LakeSuperiorView]

7. I suppose that each snowflake is 6 distinct logs of the temperature and humidity as it formed.

Dust particles probably also. Each of the legs is a record of the conditions in which it formed, they are not perfectly alike.

[world wide wally]

10. Have you ever considered that the old adage about no 2 snowflakes are alike

originated because nobody could ever look at every snowflake?

[oldlibdem]

11. nice! But...

I was expecting to see loosers in MAGA hats crying about gun rights.