Atmospheric conditions needed for fat snow flakes

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Where I live is getting some crazy snowfall right now. There isn’t that much snow but the flakes are larger than golf balls and very fluffy, not like hail. What are the specific atmospheric conditions that make the flakes so much larger than usual? (See my previous posts for a video example).

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Joel Gratz, founder of OpenSnow, does a good job of explaining it here https://www.onthesnow.com/news/a/584876/what-does-a-perfect-snowflake-look-like

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