Snowflakes are an unique art that falls from the sky. They are like beautiful puzzles of art because of how they are formed, the way they appear when they fall, and where they come from. So what are snowflakes? Snowflakes are mysterious pieces of art that God, the artist designs before the snowflakes fall. As they fall, you can tell God is truly an artist. As you continue to read this story, you will learn the true meaning of snowflakes that God has beautifully made.
To begin with, snowflakes are formed in a miraculous way. As snowflakes fall, thick layers attach to make the snowflakes the way God wants it to be. When the snowflakes fall, ground temperature will decide whether the snow/snowflakes will stick on the ground or not. According to "Snow Day!", it states, "Ground temp. Is often warmer than air temp. because the ground absorbs more heat from the Sun than the air can. In order for snow to pile up, the temp. of the ground must be 32 degrees Fahrenheit of below." Since no two snowflakes are alike, there are tons of difference between two. So, how exactly are snowflakes formed? Each snowflake has its own unique style when it comes to forming.
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After the snowflakes fall, you will see that some snowflakes have six sides. It is impossible for a snowflake to have more or less than six sides. You will see big and small snowflakes. But when do smaller snowflakes form? Smaller snowflakes form when the air is cold. Each snowflake contains up to 200 ice crystals. "The conditions in the atmosphere are different within each cloud and each snowflake's journey produces a complete unique shape and pattern for the snowflake." (Snow
Much of the biblical references in Snow-White occur symbolically through color, numbers, and objects. Color offers the most obvious examples. Towards the start of the tale, the queen, having pricked her finger while admiring the snow through her window, articulates a wish: “‘Oh that I had a child as white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as the wood of the embroidery frame’” (215). Shortly thereafter, the wish is fulfilled, similar to how God’s articulated wishes are fulfilled during the Creation Story, and Snow-White is born with a light complexion, flushed lips, and dark hair.
The concept of lake-effect snow is rather simple. It starts when cold arctic air from Canada moves southwest across the great lakes, which are warmer than the air. As the air moves across the lakes evaporation occurs. The moist air is cooled as it is lifted up and then turned into snow. This snow does not stop until the cold arctic winds stop drifting across the lakes. Hills and valleys on the shore of the lakes intensify the amount of snow an area receives. The shore of the lakes as well as, any hills or valleys, cause the masses of moist air to slow down and “pile up”.
Throughout the film ‘Snow Falling on Cedars’ the director Scott Hicks has used symbolism to convey a number of his ideas. He used the fog and snow to symbolise hidden secrets, the sea to represent life and death, and he used the Cedars to symbolise a place of secrecy and protection. By using these three symbols, Scott Hick’s ideas could be conveyed without anything being said at all.
Point release avalanches, or loose snow slides, begin at one point on a slope and get progressively wider as they proceed down the slope. A fundamental characteristic that must be present for this type of avalanche to occur is a surface layer of cohesionless, or nearly cohesionless, snow (University of Colorado IBS 1975; Fredston and Fesler 1994). An initially small amount of snow begins to move downward when the force of gravity is greater than the forces of cohesion at a particular angle or when debris from above starts the s...
First, Collins uses hyperbole by repeating the word “snow” five times in one sentence: “Chicago’s snowfall was so huge that the news media ran out of things to attach to “snow” - thundersnow! snowpocalypse! snowmageddon!” (Collins). She consecutively uses three portmanteaus of the word "snow" with increasing stress level to create strong feelings. She wants to emphasize that Chicago is experiencing the most massive snowstorm in the United States, one of the consequences of global warming. This is a circumstance that causes people panic. She then reminds the readers about the blizzard of 1979 which made Mayor Michael Bilandic get “kicked out of office six weeks later in the Democratic primary.” It seems that she wants to make a connection between the congressman and a snow job.
She also chose to draw the shards of ice as if they’re flying at a fast pace rather than single snowflakes. I feel these types of examples were to show the aggression in the drawing and how heavy a storm can be. This drawing represents Iowa really well because if it’s harsh hitting winter storms. It also shows how gloomy the days can be when those types of storms hit. Ellen Wagener uses the dark effect in two ways.
The term snow is usually restricted to material that fall during precipitation in the form of small white ice crystals formed directly from the water vapour of the air at a temperature of less than 0°C and has not changed much since it fell. A fall of snow on a glacier surface is the first step in the formation of glacier ice, a process that is often long and complex (Cuffey and Paterson, 2010). The transformation of snow to ice occurs in the top layers of the glaciers and the time of the transformation depends mostly on the temperature. Snow develops into ice much more rapidly on Temperate glaciers, where periods of melting alternate with periods when wet snow refreezes, than in Polar glaciers, where the temperature remains well below the freezing point throughout the year. The density of new snow as it falls on glacier surface depends mostly on the weather conditions. In clam conditions, the density of new snow is ρs ≈ 50 – 70 kg m-3 (Table 1.1). If it is windy, there is breaking of the corners of snowflakes, and the density is more like ρs ≈ 100 kg m-3. After the snow has fallen on the surface, there are three processes that are all active together and work to transform the snow to ice.
When we think of Christmas weather, “snow” comes to mind. From making snow angels, building snowmen, throwing snowballs, and catching snowflakes on our tongues, we anticipate living in every single moment of this Winter Wonderland. However, at any time, this perfect depiction of a Winter Wonderland could unravel unexpectedly to becoming a Winter Disaster, known as a snow blizzard. In accordance to the National Weather Service that the LIVESCIENCE website quotes of, a blizzard is a “storm with considerable falling or blowing snow and winds in excess of 35 mph and visibilities of less than ¼ mile for at least 3 hours.” The Great Blizzard of 1888 overshadowed New York City to become a city that was fully covered in snow ruins as it took its toll
No two snowflakes are the same, much like humans. Humans deal with certain situations in different ways from one another, particularly in the department of love. In the novel, Kindred, written by Octavia Butler, the audience meets many characters that learn to cope with love or their love for others in unspoken ways. The character, Rufus, is stupid in love. The techniques he uses to keep the people he loves by his side tend to be destructive and possessive. He cannot control his urges to put a leash on his “lovers” to keep them always by his side. His mother, Margaret, acts more pitiful compared to Rufus. She often gets ignored and taken advantage of by the people she loves, so she tries her best to hold on to them (although failing miserably).
Sometimes, a “flake” can be misinterpreted. A flake can be someone who never keeps their word, someone who says they’ll do something, and don’t. However, in this context, this “flake” sister Zoe is talking about is a snowflake. A snowflake is defined by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary as, “a flake or crystal of snow.” Expanding on that, the Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines a flake as, “a small loose mass or bit,” and a crystal as, “quartz that is transparent or nearly so and that is either colorless or only slightly tinged.” In my opinion, Sister Zoe is comparing Yolanda to snowflakes. In the beginning of the story, Sister Zoe secludes Yolanda from the rest of the class and gives her a special seat in the front of the classroom. Yolanda is a snowflake, metaphorica...
Lake effect snow is a very interesting mesoscale convective phenomenon that occurs mostly during the heart of the winter season and adds greatly to the annual snowfall that areas
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“At 12:42 p.m. the air was perfectly calm for about one minute; the next minute the sky was completely overcast by heavy black clouds which, for a few minutes previous, had hung along the western and northwestern horizon, and the wind veered to the west and blew with such violence as to render the position of the observer on the roof unsafe. The air was immediately filled with snow as fine as sifted flour” (Potter). No one expected the blizzard that would soon come rolling over to create some of the unfortunate deaths. Now, the questions are what exactly happened during the storm, how are snowstorms created, and what damages it caused.
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