ClickSchooling digest introduced us to a page on New Scientist that has actual photographs of snowflakes taken by Kenneth Libbrecht. This site also gives neat descriptions of these flakes. At the end of the series of photographs is a link to more snowflake galleries.
This site gives temperatures in Celsius so we used the Celsius to Fahrenheit Temperature Converter to figure out what sort of weather produces which snowflakes.
After looking over New Scientist we went to SnowFlake.com and looked at many more photographs of beautiful snow crystals under the Natural Snowflakes section.
We also learned that they can create snowflakes in the lab under controlled conditions in the Designer Snowflake section. This section has movies of snowflakes growing in the lab and lots of neat information.
This site contains a lot of interesting information and activities including how to grow and photograph your own snow crystals.
All of these amazing snowflake photographs in this post were taken by Kenneth Libbrecht.
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