Snowflake Informative Speech

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Imagine a chilly morning with no school. The soothing television is on and you have your warm pajamas on while drinking some hot cocoa. You step outside to the cold breeze of winter and snowflakes falling onto your head. However, those snowflakes went through a long process and many other things. Think about that next time you see the thousands of glistening snowflakes falling down from the sky. Today, I will inform you on the origins of snowflakes, their appearance and misconceptions, and the impact they've had on our society. To begin with, Snowflakes are often taken for granted. Those miniature snowflakes that people just forget about, have a very interesting story behind them. Those small-scale flakes were once water that evaporated into the air. When the air temperature turned 32 degrees Fahrenheit or lower, the water vapor turned from gas to a solid. The frozen water, better known as ice crystals, forms around dust and dirt in the air. Ice crystals combine in mostly hexagonal shapes which gives snowflakes their six branches. Did you know that each snowflake may contain up to 200 ice crystals? …show more content…

I mean come on, they are the icon of Winter. However, did you know that those designs are completely wrong. A major misconception is the sides of those snowflakes. As I mentioned in the previous paragraph, snowflakes have six branches due to ice crystals. So why is it that those shops or books portray them in such a wrong way? Can't a two second google search do the job? We may never get the answers but we now know that snowflakes will most likely never be given the right

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