Go Snow, Go?
Posted by Lou Page

Looks like Mother Nature turned on her vapor diffusion chamber.
“What?!,” you may ask.
To make snow.


That’s what Kenneth G. Libbrecht, of Caltech, did to create beautiful snow crystals, all delightfully described at SnowCrystals.com. His website includes other recipes for snowflakes, describes the physics of snowflakes, has galleries of snowflake pictures, even shows movies revealing the delicate birth and growth of snow crystals.
To get hyperscience high on snow, blizzards, avalanches and much more, visit All About Snow, developed by the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado. The site was recommended by the National Science Teachers Association.
Can you imagine sculpting the intricate, sometimes baffling mobius strip with snow? The Science News article, Knot Divided in Snow, shows fabulous pics and describes just how it was done at the Snow Sculpture Championships in Breckenridge, Colorado by mathematician Stan Wagon of Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.
For the youngest among us, visit, A First Grade Snowy Day, by Mrs. Palmore's first grade class at Pocantico-Hills School in Sleepy Hollow, New York.
Go snow, go!

Photo by Lou Page of her "budding snow leopard" (cat) Cremey outside in today's snow.
See real snow leopards at the Snow Leopard Trust

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