Fernie Arts and Culture Guide Winter 2022 | Page 19

OW ARM CLOCK

pellets , presents as heavily rimmed particles or soft hail and is created as supercooled water funnels up into the clouds and bonds to the snowflakes as they fall . Cold clear nights create surface hoar , big sparkling feather-like crystals . Prolonged cold changes snow crystals into sugar-like forms that do not bond together . When layers build up over time and become frozen by repeated exposure to melting sun and freezing temperatures , this is called the crust . As