Largest Snowflake Ever Recorded- 125th Year anniversary

Links:
https://www.google.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/snowflake-google-doodle-...
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/20/science/20snow.html?pagewanted=all

From the Washington Post:
"IF YOU BELIEVE the old saying, no two snowflakes are alike.

And if you believe legend and lore and Guinness World Records, there's a single monstrous snowflake that's the least alike of all.

Google's homepage "Doodle" on Saturday celebrates the 125th anniversary of the largest recorded snowflake — a stone-cold behemoth said to be 15 inches in diameter. The freakishly massive flake reportedly drifted — or perhaps plummeted — to earth at Montana's Fort Keogh in 1887.

(The snowflakes in that Jan. 28 storm, according to a New York Times piece a few years back, were described by a rancher as "larger than milk pans.")

In Google's stylish new animation, a gargantuan flake falls from the sky over several seconds, settling next to a cow and sending a couple of birds flitting away. (The snowflake also becomes the middle "O" in Google, with a shadowed tower representing the "L" and a leafless tree sitting in for the "G.)"

From the New York Times:
"Since at least the 19th century, people have periodically claimed to see giant snowflakes falling from the sky — big ones the size of saucers and plates or even larger, their edges turned up, their heaviness making them descend faster than small flakes.

But the evidence was always sketchy and, because of the fragile nature of snowflakes, fleeting. The giant flakes were not quite in the category of sea monsters or U.F.O.'s. Even so, skeptics noted the human fondness for exaggeration, as well as the lack of convincing photographs. And the organizations that compile weather records never made tracking big flakes an observational requirement. So the giants languished in a twilight world of science, their existence claimed but seldom documented.

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[pjkawesome]

125 years ago? i just wasted 10 minutes of my life trying to find a video of it -.-

[WTFproduktionz]

@pjkawesome it happens XD

[irvineworld]

i was trying hard to get into bodybuilding but can only go up to 160lb

now im so happy watching you

[WTFproduktionz]

@irvineworld Thanks?

[MFRoosy16]

1887... hmmm well back people were probably drinking whiskey and drunk and went outside and were like OMGGGGGGG

[WTFproduktionz]

@MFRoosy16 lol

[jocelin061398]

2nd comment....

1st looser

[Creeperhaaw]

Reararity?

[watkinfs]

@MFRoosy16 Anybody see the leprechaun say yeeeeeeeaaaaaaaahhhhhhh

[MrAngel55573]

@MrAngel55573 They are not a simulates thing its me and them.hope you enjoy.

[JonathanKLeery]

It's pronounced "one hundred twenty-fifth."