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Cierra,

The process for making snow is fairly simple. Condensation nuclei (soil, salt, etc.) act as sites for water vapor to freeze onto, expanding as snow crystals with time. The air that snow crystals form in must be near or above saturation (relative humidity near 100%) and below freezing.

The same process is used by man-made snow machines at ski resorts.

The howstuffworks website at

adventure.howstuffworks.com/snow-maker.htm

gives a good description of how snow is made by nature and also how man-made snow is made.

You can also use a web browser search engine such as Google (type in "snow maker") to find web pages that tell you how to make your own home-made snow maker.

David R. Cook
Meteorologist
Climate Research Section
Environmental Science Division
Argonne National Laboratory

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