What temperature does does it have to be for snow to fall?

Answer 1

28 degrees and lower

32 degrees Fahrenheit, or 0 degrees Celsius.

32

The temperature has to be 32 degrees Fahrenheit or lower for snow to form in the atmosphere, but the temperature on the ground can be higher. On the ground, rain usually starts to turn to snow somewhere between 35 and 37 degrees F, but can be as high as 41 degrees, depending on how quickly the temperature changes in the atmosphere that the snow falls through. Snow usually starts to stick on the ground at around 34 degrees F.

Answer 2

Snow typically falls when the air temperature is at or below freezing (32°F or 0°C). However, other factors like humidity, atmospheric pressure, and altitude can also play a role in determining when snow will fall.

Answer 3

Anything lower than freezing.
Snow is frozen water. That means that the temperature in the clouds, where the snow forms, should be below zero degrees Celsius. On the ground, the temperature might be hotter (in which case, the snow would melt quickly).

Answer 4

Contrary to popular belief, it does NOT have to be freezing or below at the surface to snow, since the temperatures are below freezing throughout almost all of the atmosphere where the precipitation (snow) formed.

Usually, the temperature has to be around 36 or 37 degrees or colder at the onset of snow, in which, the snow will fall, but melt on contact unless it falls very heavily.

But under conditions such as evaporative cooling, surface temperatures can be as warm as the low 40's. Obviously, it has to be below freezing up in the clouds, meaning below 32 degrees.

In very rare instances in drier regions, it has been even warmer than this as snow fell for brief periods. As long as the upper atmospheric conditions are right, snowflakes start to form. 32o F or 0o C (freezing), although it can sometimes be slightly above.

Answer 5

Snow is frozen water. That means that the temperature in the clouds, where the snow forms, should be below zero degrees Celsius. On the ground, the temperature might be hotter (in which case, the snow would melt quickly).

Answer 6

32 ferinhite

Answer 7

Since snow is frozen water, the temperature must be below zero degree Centigrade. Not necessarily on the ground where it snows; but the clouds where the snow forms must be below zero.

Answer 8

0 degrees Celsius or 32 degrees Fahrenheit.

Answer 9

Most people say that it has to be atleast 32 degrees for it to start snowing. But i say it has to be atleast under 36 degrees. Hope this helps.

Answer 10

32 degrees