Snow Image Gallery
Snowflakes
A stellar dendrite snowflake. These snowflakes are common in light and dry
snow.
UCAR
A stellar dendrite snowflake. These snowflakes are common in light and dry
snow.
UCAR
A stellar plate snowflake
UCAR
A stellar plate snowflake
UCAR
A simple prism-shaped snowflake
. Snowflakes have simple shapes like this when humidity is low.
UCAR
Two simple snowflakes that look very much alike!
Nancy Knight/NCAR
Snowstorms
Snowplow
Carlye Calvin/UCAR
Snow covered trees
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