Supercooled water droplets can latch on to ice crystals creating a bumpy surface. Snow layers composed of smooth ice crystals without these bumps are typically unstable and don’t stack up easily.

If there are more supercooled water droplets in the cloud, snow ratios will be lower. If there’s a higher amount of ice crystals, snow ratios will be higher. If it’s windy, snowflakes can ...

Salt lowers the freezing point of water, so the salt basically makes the ice melt (this is why salt-grit is added to the roads when there is snow ... can use to form ice crystals, is other ...

You need water vapor ... turning it into ice crystals. Snow forms in cold clouds, where temperatures hover between 14°F and ...

Meanwhile, the hole in the cloud slowly expands and more and more of the supercooled water droplets turn to ice. This is very rare as our clouds usually exist as ice crystals or liquid water ...