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. It's made up of tiny ice crystals that can transform into a variety of intricate symmetrical patterns forming a beautiful snowflake. Have you ever wondered how snowflakes form? Did you know ...

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 ...

Universally known to indicate that the winter season has arrived and known in the Inland Northwest to indicate that it is time to don warm boots and gloves to scrape your car before work, snow is ...

Snowstorms tend to cripple cities with residents poorly practiced in the use of shovels, plows and tire chains. At the same time, such places seem to revel more heartily in those rare events when a ...

Here's a question to ponder during these cold, wintry days: How big can snowflakes get? Part of the answer depends on what you mean by the word "snowflake." The other part of that answer depends on ...

At an auction of photography at Swann Galleries in New York City last spring, an album of 51 images of snow crystals sold for $22,500 to an anonymous dealer bidding by phone. The black-and-white ...

Part of the answer depends on what you mean by the word "snowflake." The other part of that answer depends on who you ask. If you consult the Guinness World Record keepers, they say that the "largest ...

Part of the answer depends on what you mean by the word "snowflake." The other part of that answer depends on who you ask. If you consult the Guinness World Record keepers, they say that the "largest ...