Essay | All About Snow

What is snow? Were, does it come from? How is it formed? And Why does it snow? These questions I will answer for my readers in this report. A majority of my life has been in a climate known fir snow during the late fall and Winter months. People are usually awed by the first snowflake falling from the sky. Snow, a sign of cold nights, hot chocolate and children sledding down hills with rosy cheeks. This phenomenon of mother nature some love and some hate.

Snow is formed when precipitation forms by the sublimation of water vapor into solid crystals at temperatures below freezing. Sublimation resulting in the formation of snow takes place in a shard about the size of a dust particle, as in the formation of raindrops. Snowflakes form when they descend through air warmer than that of the cloud. In...
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