how big is a million snowflakes?

[nanette1985]

Obviously, the traffic stop didn't last long enough for me to count snowflakes to a million.

So, how big is a million snowflakes?

 

[AreaCode707]

What size snowflakes and in what state of decay?

 

[mobobuff]

In cubic units or square units?

 

[nanette1985]

Originally posted by: HotChic
What size snowflakes and in what state of decay?

Let's go for "average". What is an average snowflake size, anyway?
And for the sake of calculations, let's assume no decay - you know, like in all those math problems where you ignore real-life stuff for the sake of calculating.

The snow I was counting was little tiny balls of ice, maybe 1-16th of an inch in diameter. Not individual snowflakes, come to think of it.

 

[FoBoT]

snow crystals do vary quite a bit

http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/falling/falling.htm

apparently it depends on the temperature mostly, but that link mentions as small as 10 and as large as 140 microns

so lets just use 100 microns to make the maths simple


100 microns times 1 million = 328.08 ft ?

er, i don't know

 

[allisolm]

1,000,000 average snowflakes placed end to end reaches approximately 7.9 miles. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

 

[nanette1985]

Cool, thanks!

I'm going to be really obnoxious at the bar tonight, showing off about snowflake trivia.

 

[KK]

1.4 sq. inches

 

[toekramp]

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