• Question: how does snow freeze when the weather is not as cold as a freezer?

    Asked by 888cmte47 to Cat?, Elaine, Helena, Iain, Gabriel on 13 Mar 2016. This question was also asked by 597cmte47.
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      Cat Scott ? answered on 13 Mar 2016:

      Great question! ❄ ❄ ❄ ❄

      Freezers are VERY cold, usually -18 degrees celsius. However, water freezes at 0 degrees celsius, so it doesn’t have to be quite as cold as the freezer for snow to freeze outside. ⛄ Also, snow is made quite high up in the air where it’s a bit colder than it is down at the surface where we live, so sometimes when it lands on the ground it just melts straight away. ⛄

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