The snowflake-making process is itself an emergent ... a unique and structurally complicated product of the winter storm (and the jet liner). Similarly, the mesmerizing iridescence and complex ...

They float effortlessly, but their creation is one of nature’s most complicated physics feats. From stars to needles to amorphous globs, scientists are demystifying a snowflake’s complex ...

Dendrite snowflakes can only form in temperatures of -20 to -25°C, and where there is lots of moisture in the atmosphere. That’s what is needed for such big complicated snowflakes to form.

Graupel begins the same way as most winter precipitation types -- as snowflakes in the clouds. This is where the process gets more complicated. As the snowflake falls through the atmosphere ...