Well, up here in CT were are into our second major snowstorm and I was just wondering why snow sticks to vertical objects such as windshields, windows, walls, etc.

 

Could it be that the snow melts and frezes to the suface or something?

Probably for pretty much the same reasons water does, and they're in the other thread.

Yes cohesive and adhesive forces look under sticky water

Woo another CTer!

what is a CTer?

things like glass etc... aren`t actualy smooth either on a micro scale, it`s full of ridges and pits like the surface of the moon.

snowflakes are also made up of tiny and VERY SHARP crystaline structures, as sharp as 1 molecule wide in places, these will act like an array of little hooks, not quite like velcro, more like a Shuriken (ninja star) and will quite easily bury itself into one of the surface materials inperfections, this will then build up over time as they begin to get tangled in each other. eventualy when the total mass exceeds the adhesion to the surface, it slides off as one peice and starts over again

You missed out the critical "flumpf" noise.

Yeah I saw the Sticky Water post.

 

Rasori:

What County?

Someone from Connecticut, US , I would imagine

Oh chey. i thought it was some kind of science term.

Rasori:

What county/town/city?