12-20-2023, 01:56 AM
I'm sitting here with my warm clothes on (hubby likes the house at 73. My body thinks this is somewhat on the chilly side) and stumble across something on my Facebook feed about snow... and snowflakes... and the question of "what's the biggest snowflake ever"?
Interesting question. But it turns out that the answer is "it depends"...
It depends on what you're calling a snowflake.
Most of what we call snowflakes are simply single crystals of ice (think about salt crystals in your salt shaker) -- "snow crystals" -- and they're pretty tiny and the largest onrecord is only 1/3rd of an inch.
Snowflakes, however, are conglomerations of snow crystals and they can be pretty darn big... as in the size of a pizza pan https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/wor...-snowflake
You need a heavy, wet snow for that sort of thing: https://www.theweatherprediction.com/habyhints/261/
Have YOU seen any big snowflakes? We really don't get them in Texas, but I have a memory of seeing some pretty large and fluffy ones (perhaps close to half an inch) in Germany when I was a child.
Interesting question. But it turns out that the answer is "it depends"...
It depends on what you're calling a snowflake.
Most of what we call snowflakes are simply single crystals of ice (think about salt crystals in your salt shaker) -- "snow crystals" -- and they're pretty tiny and the largest onrecord is only 1/3rd of an inch.
Snowflakes, however, are conglomerations of snow crystals and they can be pretty darn big... as in the size of a pizza pan https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/wor...-snowflake
You need a heavy, wet snow for that sort of thing: https://www.theweatherprediction.com/habyhints/261/
Have YOU seen any big snowflakes? We really don't get them in Texas, but I have a memory of seeing some pretty large and fluffy ones (perhaps close to half an inch) in Germany when I was a child.
