ENJOYING SNOWFALL

It's Monday, 14th April 2014, evening around 4.30pm , suddenly snowfall started.... It's just frozen rain, slowly the intensity of snowfall increased and within an hour, the lawn behind the house was appearing like it is covered with cotton wool, on the roof of houses, trees..... 

Enjoying snowfall outside

It was fun playing in the snow. Nalini and Lahari. out in the snow and playing, making snow figures.
Snow is precipitation in the form of flakes of crystalline water ice that falls from clouds. Since snow is composed of small ice particles, it is a granular material. It has an open and therefore soft, white, and fluffy structure, unless subjected to external pressure.Snowflakes come in a variety of sizes and shapes. Types that fall in the form of a ball due to melting and refreezing, rather than a flake, are known as hail, ice pellets or snow grains.

Lawn behind the house

Snow occurs when the air within clouds falls below the freezing point. The moisture starts to crystalize, and the tiny particles begin to stick together. Once they're big enough/heavy enough, gravity kicks in and they fall to the ground - hence 'snow'. In a nutshell, snow is pretty much frozen rain. 

enjoying snowfall from inside

It's also first to see the snowfall and it's amazing.
written Tuesday 15th April 2014