In the early 1900s, Wilson A. Bentley sent 500 prints of his snowflakes to the Smithsonian to ensure their safety for the future. The images are now part of the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives.

The first way that people tried to make “real” snow was by seeding natural clouds ... to create snowmaking machines that can grow fluffy natural snow crystals. Scientists have been growing snowflakes ...

and it is generally not possible to explain why even simple crystals develop their characteristic shapes. A case in point is the snow crystal, which grows into a puzzling variety of unusual ...

but these are freshly fallen snowflakes, or snow crystals, resting on wool. They are around 1 millimeter in size and were captured using a simple, cheap photography technique. When the snow starts ...

BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) - To celebrate the 150th episode of Morse Code of Weather (all episodes can be found here), Meteorologist Jacob Morse tested a couple of fun snow-related science experiments!