2024-12-18

Flake Appreciation Day 2024

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Another Flake Appreciation Day is upon us. Each 18th of December we get to express appreciation for snowflakes. I am simply one of many who like them, their form, their uniqueness, their symmetry.

They occur with some 35 categories of shape. No two are exactly alike.

Snowflakes form when water vapor in clouds freezes around dust particles due to humidity. Their shapes are impacted by elements like dust, temperature, humidity, and currents. Typically hexagonal, snowflakes can sometimes take the form of flat, needle-shaped particles.

This day was primarily the influence of one Wilson Bentley of Jericho, Vermont. He authored articles and books about his microphotographic findings and donated some of his photographs to the Smithsonian Institution. He was the world’s leading snowflake expert called "The Snowflake Man" until he died in 1931.

See Also:

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