Guinness World Records places the largest snowflake ever documented in Fort Keogh, Montana, saying it was found and recorded as 38 centimeters in diameter 125 years ago on January 28.
It is amazing that someone actually documented this as a world record and strange, too, that a Google Doodler designed a special logo to remember the snowflake and that day.
The commemorative logo features a cow grazing in a snow covered field (with a few grass shoots showing), over some seconds the huge snowflake rolls in. As it drops into place, birds scatter in the sky seemingly to avoid being crushed. The cow lifts its head to watch for a moment, the flake lands and the logo shakes from the impact. As the snowflake becomes the second “o” in the Google logo, to the left is a leafless tree representing the “G”, and tower to the right becomes the “l.”
The world’s largest snowflake was reportedly 15 inches wide and 8 inches deep. Although, this record seems to be based on the word of a ranch owner named Matt Coleman, who described the snowflake as “larger than milk pans” to the Monthly Weather Review journal – possibly the reason the cow was included in Google’s Doodle, according to USA Today.
Just a little bit of Montana and Google in an unlikely trivia duo. Enjoy.
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