Once frozen, ice can be any temperature below freezing. (Reply #4)

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Mon Jan 1, 2018, 01:57 PM

longship (40,416 posts)

4. Once frozen, ice can be any temperature below freezing.

And snow is ice. Period!

A good example is Pluto. As discovered by New Horizon, Pluto has ice mountains! They are certainly colder than 32F. Snow is just small scaled ice.

This myth is busted.

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17 replies	Author	Time	Post
Question about the temperature of snow [View all]	Rorey	Jan 2018	OP
Since snow is a solid form of water, which freezes at 32 degrees F, strickly speaking	NRaleighLiberal	Jan 2018	#1
But can't snow also be lower than 32?	Rorey	Jan 2018	#3
Perhaps he means that it does not go above 32 degrees nt	Xipe Totec	Jan 2018	#2
I don't think he meant that.	Rorey	Jan 2018	#5
Once frozen, ice can be any temperature below freezing.	longship	Jan 2018	#4
That's my thought too.	Rorey	Jan 2018	#6
Do you have snow outside? Do you have a thermometer?	dixiegrrrrl	Jan 2018	#13
We have no snow.	Rorey	Jan 2018	#14
I've heard that it can be too cold to snow	TexasProgresive	Jan 2018	#7
I heard that too, but...	Rorey	Jan 2018	#9
If you heat up ice to melt it	marylandblue	Jan 2018	#8
Logic would say that snow (or any water form) would tend to be at the temperature...	TreasonousBastard	Jan 2018	#10
Thank you. I agree with logic.	Rorey	Jan 2018	#11
Just think about it.	PoindexterOglethorpe	Jan 2018	#12
When I grew up and later as a teacher I read	BigmanPigman	Jan 2018	#15
Someone once told me ...	left-of-center2012	Jan 2018	#16
I was told that it only snows between 20 and 40deg.F	Callmecrazy	Jan 2018	#17

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