{"id":1578,"date":"2014-12-18T10:25:07","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T15:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=1578"},"modified":"2014-12-18T10:25:07","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T15:25:07","slug":"the-shape-of-snowflakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2014\/12\/the-shape-of-snowflakes\/","title":{"rendered":"The shape of snowflakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of the winter and holiday season, I thought you might be interested in an article about the science of snowflakes.\u00a0 Did you know that the shape snowflakes takes depends on the atmospheric conditions in which they form?\u00a0 The most common snowflakes, which we make with paper and scissors in schoolrooms, are called dendrites, and form in a fairly narrow range of temperature and humidity conditions.\u00a0 But there are many other shapes of snowflakes and ice crystals as well.\u00a0 Here is an interesting article from the blog CompoundChem.com which describes the science behind the shapes (<a title=\"Science of snowflakes\" href=\"https:\/\/www.compoundchem.com\/2014\/12\/10\/snowflakes\/\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a>).\u00a0 Also check out these additional links:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"CalTech snowflake primer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.its.caltech.edu\/~atomic\/snowcrystals\/primer\/primer.htm\" target=\"_blank\">CalTech&#8217;s snowflake primer<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Physics of snowflakes\" href=\"https:\/\/www.its.caltech.edu\/~atomic\/publist\/rpp5_4_R03.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The physics of snowflakes<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/morphology-of-snowflakes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1580\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/morphology-of-snowflakes-300x228.jpg\" alt=\"morphology of snowflakes\" width=\"409\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/morphology-of-snowflakes-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/morphology-of-snowflakes-180x138.jpg 180w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/morphology-of-snowflakes.jpg 747w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 409px) 100vw, 409px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of the winter and holiday season, I thought you might be interested in an article about the science of snowflakes.\u00a0 Did you know that the shape snowflakes takes depends on the atmospheric conditions in which they form?\u00a0 The most common snowflakes, which we make with paper and scissors in schoolrooms, are called dendrites, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":1579,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1581,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions\/1581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}