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Video of 4-month-old puppy Cleo enjoys her first snow on Dec. 1, 2020. Cleo is half Norwegian Elkhound and half St. Bernard.

Snow is really ice shaped into tiny crystals. Most of the time the snowflake is made up of many of these tiny ice crystals stuck together. Like raindrops, snowflakes begin as water vapour in a cloud. When a cloud is very cold this water vapour changes into ice crystals.
If you could look at a snowflake under a microscope you would see that each crystal has a beautiful six-spoked shape which is usually symmetrical. A scientist, Wilson 'Snowflake' Bentley, took over 6,000 photographs of individual snow crystals between 1880 and his death in 1931. No two were alike. - Snowland eircom.net ...

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