For those interested in the science of snow, I give an annotated list of relevant blog links.  

 

I) Seminar about snow science (sequence of four videos): 

http://www.storyofsnow.com/blog1.php/trip-of-the-ice-man

II) All the different types of falling ice in one diagram: 

http://www.storyofsnow.com/blog1.php/one-hundred-twenty-one-forms-of-falling-ice-the-new-snow-classification-system

An older, simpler diagram:

http://www.storyofsnow.com/blog1.php/how-to-classify-snow-crystals

 III)  Why snow has six sides (the real answer, not the sloppy, standard answer):
http://www.storyofsnow.com/blog1.php/how-the-crystal-got-its-six

IV) How snow forms and how it is analogous to people:
http://www.storyofsnow.com/blog1.php/i-am-a-giant-snow-crystal-imperfect-thing-of-habit-bouncing-along-life-s-gusts

V) How to determine what the cloud conditions were like by looking at a snow crystal:

http://www.storyofsnow.com/blog1.php/new-habit-diagram-for-branched-tabular-crystals

VI) How snow crystal shapes are like frost crystal shapes (many blog entries about this, but here are just two):

http://www.storyofsnow.com/blog1.php/a-change-in-habit
http://www.storyofsnow.com/blog1.php/the-cup-and-the-butterfly

VII) Why is  snow sometimes white and sometimes black? Also, why is snowpack so bright? 
http://www.storyofsnow.com/blog1.php/white-snow-black-snow-pink-snow-blue-snow

VIII) Some finer details of those star-shaped crystals and what they tell us: 

Two-level;
http://www.storyofsnow.com/blog1.php/two-level-nature-of-branched

Droplet origin:
http://www.storyofsnow.com/blog1.php/how-some-snow-crystals-hide
http://www.storyofsnow.com/blog1.php/how-some-snow-crystal-centers

A signature of sublimation:
http://www.storyofsnow.com/blog1.php/how
http://www.storyofsnow.com/blog1.php/akira-s-corner-pockets 

IX) If you look up at a cloud, how do you know it has ice crystals in it? 
http://www.storyofsnow.com/blog1.php/it-s-not-a-rainbow-it-s-better
http://www.storyofsnow.com/blog1.php/halo-in-the-sky-uh-i-don-t-see-no-halo

 

Over the coming year, I'll be adding to this and reposting it. 

-- JN