It’s finally getting colder and clear sky in Fairbanks. Road is still icy bad shape. But it’s nice to see blue sky. We have very little snow accumulate this after noon. Snow had beautiful dendrite plate shape! and big!! I used to sketch crystals when we had snow in Tokyo during boyhood. Today’s crystal remind me Nakaya Diagram!!  The Japanese scientist Ukichiro Nakaya was the first one to develop methods to grow individual snow crystals under carefully controlled conditions at Hokkaido University. Nakaya’s 1954 published book, Snow Crystals, Natural and Artificial, “…offers a superb look at a scientific investigation which begins with almost nothing, and proceeds through systematic observation toward an accurate description of a fascinating natural phenomenon.” It is very true that snow crystal has a lot of information of atmosphere. the other  famous word we can borrow  from him “A snow crystal is a letter from the sky (heaven).

His Japanese version was published 5 years earlier (March 1949).