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There isn't a factor in clouds that control snowflake formation.Wet snow: water droplets and ice crystals form. Ice crystals grow. Ice crystals combine and form snowflakes. Snowflakes begin to melt. Dry snow:water droplets and ice crystals form. Ice crystals grow. Ice crystals combine snowflakes. Snowflakes fall without melting.
This is precipitation, part of the water cycle.
Cirrus clouds.
Cirrus
Cirrus
Hail.
Hail
Snowflakes are ice crystals that are simply aggregates of ice crystals that collect to each other as they fall toward the surface. Snowflakes usually fall during the winter season.
The ice crystals that fall from the sky are called snow or snowflakes.
no Ice particles fall from the sky but Ice crystals form on the ground.
snow or hail
'Sleet' or 'hail'.
Snow
There isn't a factor in clouds that control snowflake formation.Wet snow: water droplets and ice crystals form. Ice crystals grow. Ice crystals combine and form snowflakes. Snowflakes begin to melt. Dry snow:water droplets and ice crystals form. Ice crystals grow. Ice crystals combine snowflakes. Snowflakes fall without melting.
By definition, snow consists of crystals of ice called "flakes." Very wet snow is actually sleet, for instance, because there are no crystals of ice; very big, dry snow is actually hail, etc.
snowflakes
Cocaine.