How Does The Snowflake Myth Work?

A snowflake starts as a tiny ice crystal that grows bigger and bigger until it becomes a full snowflake.

Imagine you have a small ice cube in your freezer. As the air gets colder, more water turns into ice and sticks to the cube. It's like when you add sugar to hot tea, the sugar keeps getting dissolved and mixed in. In this case, the ice crystal is like that tiny cube, and as it grows, it becomes a snowflake.

Each snowflake has six sides because of how ice crystals grow. It’s kind of like when you stack blocks, they fit together in neat patterns. Some parts of the snowflake might get more ice added to them than others, which is why some snowflakes look like stars and others look like feathers.

Every snowflake travels a different path through the sky. The air it moves through, the temperature changes it experiences, all of these things help shape the snowflake in unique ways. It’s like how two kids might draw the same picture but end up with slightly different results because they used different colors or added extra details.