1. And for a very few minutes I listen to the whisper of tiny tinkling snow crystals falling now in ever denser sheets. 2. This was followed by the barely perceptible rustle of snow crystals hitting the newly exposed portion of the roof. 3. And just why do no two snow crystals look alike? 4. Petrenko found that the electrical charge on the surface of ice, including snow crystals, creates an opposite electrical charge on the surface of anything the ice contacts. 5. The snow crystals in the debris pile left by an avalanche are packed together so densely that they feel like concrete. 6. When you stepped down inside it was cozy and quiet, and whitewashed walls of snow crystal blinked back at you. 7. Instead meteorologists theorize rain fell when small snow crystals blew in from the ocean and melted due to a lack of air movement in the atmosphere over McMurdo Sound. |