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 ...

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 ...

When snow falls from the sky, you don’t usually see individual ice crystals, but rather clumps of crystals stuck together.

Kenneth Libbrecht is that rare person who, in the middle of winter, gleefully leaves Southern California for a place like Fairbanks, Alaska, where wintertime temperatures rarely rise above freezing.

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 ...

It's an incredible and very ordered formation as snow crystals form hexagonal or six-sided shapes. It's a shape which extends all the way down to the two hydrogen atoms that join with an oxygen atom ...

This past season I backcountry skied in Mineral Fork, a drainage located up Big Cottonwood Canyon. It was a cold, clear morning and, even though there were no clouds in the sky, the air was sparkling ...