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    Snow forms when water vapor in the atmosphere condenses into clouds and the water particles freeze into ice crystals. The ice crystals grow larger by accumulating more water particles and impurities that act as nucleators to accelerate the freezing process. If the air temperature remains below freezing, the ice crystals will fall to the ground as snow. For snow to occur naturally, the air temperature must be low enough both in the clouds and below, which is why snow is rare in tropical regions like Indonesia that generally have warmer temperatures and cause ice crystals to melt before reaching the ground.

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    Snow forms when water vapor in the atmosphere condenses into clouds and the water particles freeze into ice crystals. The ice crystals grow larger by accumulating more water particles and impurities that act as nucleators to accelerate the freezing process. If the air temperature remains below freezing, the ice crystals will fall to the ground as snow. For snow to occur naturally, the air temperature must be low enough both in the clouds and below, which is why snow is rare in tropical regions like Indonesia that generally have warmer temperatures and cause ice crystals to melt before reaching the ground.

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    Snow forms when water vapor in the atmosphere condenses into clouds and the water particles freeze into ice crystals. The ice crystals grow larger by accumulating more water particles and impurities that act as nucleators to accelerate the freezing process. If the air temperature remains below freezing, the ice crystals will fall to the ground as snow. For snow to occur naturally, the air temperature must be low enough both in the clouds and below, which is why snow is rare in tropical regions like Indonesia that generally have warmer temperatures and cause ice crystals to melt before reaching the ground.

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    Snow forms when water vapor in the atmosphere condenses into clouds and the water particles freeze into ice crystals. The ice crystals grow larger by accumulating more water particles and impurities that act as nucleators to accelerate the freezing process. If the air temperature remains below freezing, the ice crystals will fall to the ground as snow. For snow to occur naturally, the air temperature must be low enough both in the clouds and below, which is why snow is rare in tropical regions like Indonesia that generally have warmer temperatures and cause ice crystals to melt before reaching the ground.

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    SNOW

    Snow is water droplets that fall from clouds. Then, those falling waters becomes solid. You need to
    know that rain consists of water vapor particles, then cooled in the air. They fell to the earth as pieces
    of soft, white, and shaped like crystals. When the air temperature has been hot, the snow began to melt
    and disappear. It turns directly into water vapor and the process is called the sublime. Meanwhile, the
    opposite process is called deposition. Snow falls in the country with a subtropical and a temperate
    climate. However, you can also find those in Indonesia. Snow in Indonesia are in Jayawijaya and
    Barisan Sudirman Papua, Indonesia.
    To answer how the snow happens, we can start from the water vapor in Earths atmosphere which are
    assembled. A mass of water vapor cools to the point of condensation (the temperature in which a gas
    turns into a liquid or a solid form), then those waters coagulate to form clouds. At the beginning, the
    mass of cloud formation is much smaller than the mass of air so that those can float in the air. When
    you see, thats just like the wooden beams floating on the water surface. However, after the steam
    increases and merges inside the clouds, its mass also increases, so that at some point the air can no
    longer hold it. The clouds then break up and the water particles fall to Earth.
    The water particles that fall are the pure one. It means that the water does not contaminated by the other
    particles. Usually the air temperature below the cloud is below the 0 degrees Celsius (depending on the
    air temperature at the height above the sea level). However, only a low temperature is not enough to
    create the snow. When particles of pure water are in contact with air, those main parts are contaminated
    by the other particles. There are certain particles to accelerate the freezing phase, so that pure water
    quickly becomes crystals of ice.
    Impurity particles involved in this process is called nukleator, in addition to function as an accelerating
    phase of clotting, it also becomes an adhesive among the water vapor. So that, the water particles
    (which are not pure anymore) joined together with other water particles to form larger crystals. If the
    air temperature does not melt the ice crystals, those will fall to the ground. Then, heres the snow! If the
    snow is not formed, the ice melts and gets to the ground in the form of rain water.
    In many cases around the world, the rain process always begins with a snow when it falls from the
    clouds, but then melts when it crosses the heat temperature. Sometimes, if the temperature is very low,
    the ice crystals can form tiny balls of ice. Bandung is one of the places that frequently gets the hail. So,
    this is why the snow is very hard to fall naturally in tropical regions because the places including
    Indonesia have high air temperatures and it makes the ice balls melt.

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