Does snowmaking make snow flakes?
Snowmaking does not make snowflakes like you see during a snowstorm. Snowmaking produces very small particles of water that freeze in mid flight before they hit the ground. In meteorology, rain that falls into a freezing atmosphere and hits the ground as a liquid produces freezing rain making for an ice storm. If the same rain drops freeze before they hit the ground it is called sleet. Sleet makes tiny frozen shapes that can look like cones or tiny frozen ice balls and this is just like snowmaking will produce. Hail is when a rain drop is circulated up and down in the clouds from above 32 degrees to below 32 degrees creating a ball of ice that continues to build in size till the updraft winds can’t hold it up any longer and it falls to ground.
