When one thinks about winter, one thinks about snow and cold. They go hand in hand for many reasons, but what is snow, really ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In 1887, a rancher named Matt Coleman spotted huge snowflakes that had fallen onto one of his ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...