Let's hope Jack Nicholson has a pleasant birthday on Wednesday, or at least a less disturbing one than the birthday when pal Hunter S. Thompson showed up outside his house, turned on a spotlight, blasted a recording of a pig being eaten alive by bears, fired several rounds from his 9mm pistol, and (when the terrified actor and his kids refused to ...
There are five types of snow crystals. The first type are called needles, the second type are hollow columns, the third type of snow crystal are the stars, the fourth type of snow crystal are the sector plates, and the fifth are the dendrites. There are five types of snow crystals. The first type are calledneedles, the second type are hollow columns, the third type of snowcrystal are the stars, the fourth type of snow crystal are thesector plates, and the fifth are the dendrites.
A snowflake is a single ice crystal that has achieved a sufficient size, and may have amalgamated with others, then falls through the Earth's atmosphere as snow. Each flake nucleates around a dust particle in supersaturated air masses by attracting supercooled cloud water droplets, which freeze and accrete in crystal form. Complex shapes emerge as the flake moves through differing temperature and humidity zones in the atmosphere, such that individual snowflakes differ in detail from one another,