When someone says “as white as snow,” it’s easy to envision what they’re talking about. We often think of snow as a dazzling ...

Some parts of the U.S. see well over 100 inches (2.5 meters) of snow per year. Edoardo Frola/Moment Open via Getty Images The thought of snow can conjure up images of powdery slopes, days out of ...

This 10.0 mm (0.4 inches) monster snowflake holds the Guinness record for the largest snow crystal. A microscope was used to photograph it in four quadrants, which were later digitally recombined.

Answer: Clouds form when sufficiently moist air is cooled to the dew point temperature of the air or below, so that either liquid water droplets form on cloud condensation nuclei, or in the case of ...

Imagine you’re floating at the top of a cloud and you’re made of a dust particle. It’s 5 degrees Fahrenheit. Water vapor freezes onto you, making an icy, three-dimensional prism. It has six flat sides ...

Snow dancing, Ullr calling and deep yearning for more snow this season appear to have paid off! After such a dry fall and early winter, abundant snowfall finally is allowing us to enjoy our sliding ...

Rare rime ice and ground-level ice crystals form across Boise as deep temperature inversion creates perfect conditions for ...

Have you ever noticed snowflakes can look very different? Whether the snow is wet and fluffy or hard and icy can impact the shape of each individual snowflake! A snowflake begins to form when an ...

The largest snow crystal ever measured was 10 millimetres across, discovered by Kenneth Libbrecht, who photographed the record-breaker in Ontario, Canada, in December 2003. Libbrecht is a professor at ...