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Snowflakes...

Snowflakes are ice-crystals. Ice-crystals are like clear glass only much more fragile.

Ice crystals come in millions and millions of shapes and patterns. It's almost impossible to spot two that are alike.

The shape of the snowflake depends on how high up in the clouds they are formed:

• Six sided crystals are shaped in the high clouds.
• Needle or flat six sided crystals are shaped in the middle clouds.
• A wide variety of six sided shapes are formed in low clouds.
• An ice crystal needs a temperature of 5 degrees f to grow

The colder the temperature the sharper the ice crystal tips

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