Up to what temperature does it snow?
Snow is a fascinating natural phenomenon. But from and up to what temperature this precipitation can remain in a beautiful crystal form, are two central questions. When it snows and what happens is explained here.
What is snow
- Snow is another form of precipitation - or the cold form of rain.
- Every rainfall begins as snow - because the temperatures at cloud level are so low that the otherwise liquid water has a solid form, hence that of the snow.
- If the snow now comes out of the cloud, the deeper the flake falls, the warmer it usually gets - as a result, it starts to melt and arrives as raindrops.
- However, when the temperatures in the troposphere, i.e. the atmosphere that is directly around the earth, are 0 degrees Celsius, the snowflake retains its shape and arrives as it.
Up to what temperature it snows
- From a temperature of 2 degrees Celsius, the snow can actually arrive in this form, but it does not manage to stay on the streets and meadows.
- From a temperature of 0 degrees, the precipitation has a chance to remain in the form of a crystal. Water freezes from a temperature of 0 ° C, so it snows accordingly.
- However, no lower limit is known. According to eyewitness reports, it still snows at -10 degrees Celsius and even less on the Zugspitze - as a result, the limits seem to be open to minus degrees.
- Normally, the colder it gets, the drier the air, but water has the ability to sublimate - that is, water can change directly from the liquid to the gaseous state of aggregation - accordingly, snow is even at the coldest temperatures possible.
- However, it should not be disregarded that precipitation is actually necessary, in addition to the cool temperatures, in order to be able to display snow.
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