MUNDANE MYSTERIES: How big can a snowflake get?

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MUNDANE MYSTERIES: How big can a snowflake get?

We’ve got this snow on the way tonight here in Connecticut so I figured it would be a good day to talk about snow. You always hear about how small snowflakes mean a lot of snow, and larger flakes mean less. But just how big can snowflakes get?

Well… the largest ever recorded was back on January 28, 1887, in Montana. There was a member of the army who witnessed the flake falling and claimed it was “frisbee-sized”. Insane!

I hope we don’t see many that big tonight.

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