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Will it snow in Guangdong?

Yes, it snows in Shaoguan every year.

Formation of snow

Snow is a form of precipitation, which is called solid precipitation in meteorology. Snowflakes grow in a cloud with both ice crystals and supercooled water droplets, which is called ice-water mixed cloud. In this cloud, supercooled water droplets are constantly evaporated into water vapor, and the water vapor is constantly rushing to the surface of ice crystals, where it condenses and settles, making the ice crystals gradually increase to form snowflakes.

Snowflakes form and fall downward. In the process of falling, when you meet other snowflakes, they tend to stick together and grow up slowly. When encountering updraft, small snowflakes rise faster than large snowflakes. Small snowflakes catch up with big snowflakes and stick together. After repeated several times, they gradually turned into a snow ball with a diameter of several centimeters like cotton and goose feathers.

When the updraft in the air can no longer hold these snowflakes, they will fall from the clouds. If the temperature of the lower air is below 0℃, snowflakes will fall to the ground, that is, people will see snow.