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Dec
Definitions of Snow on the Web
Definitions of snow on the Web (from Google):
- Precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals. A layer of snowflakes (white crystals of frozen water) covering the ground. (Princeton)
- Snow is a type of precipitation in the form of crystalline water ice, consisting of a multitude of snowflakes that fall from clouds. Since snow is composed of small ice particles, it is a granular material. It has an open and therefore soft structure, unless packed by external pressure. (Wikipedia)
- The frozen, crystalline state of water that falls as precipitation. (Wiktionary)
- Frozen precipitation composed of ice particles in complex hexagonal patterns. (Weather Glossary)
- Water vapor from the sky that falls as white flakes and covers the ground. (English Club)
- Precipitation composed of white or translucent ice crystals. Snow forms in cold clouds by the direct transfer of water vapor to ice. (National Weather Service)
- Precipitation composed of white or translucent ice crystals, chiefly in complex branched hexagonal forms. (Nova Lynx)
- Soft white crystals of ice that fall to the earth as precipitation. (Alberta Rose)
- Precipitation of snow crystals, mostly branched in the form of six-pointed stars. It usually falls steadily for several hours or more. Qualifiers, such as occasional or intermittent, are used when a steady, prolonged (for several hours or more) fall is not expected. (Ohio Weather Safety)
- Ice crystals that fall from clouds and which may stick together to form snowflakes. (BBC)
- Frozen precipitation that forms when water vapor is deposited as ice crystals around nuclei in the clouds. (SkyWatch)
- Precipitation in the form of ice crystals, mainly of intricately branched, hexagonal form and often agglomerated into snowflakes, formed directly from the freezing of the water vapor in the air. (University of Utah)
