A professor of atmospheric and planetary sciences explains how ice crystals in the sky become the snow that coats the ground ...

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 ...

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 ...

Snow is a magical change of scenery — a chance to bundle up in your warmest clothing, go sledding, build a snowball, make snow angels or have a snowball fight. But how does snow form? Snow is formed ...

The Basic Building Blocks Every Cloud Needs Clouds need two essential ingredients to form, and both must be present ...

Scientists say cloud seeding can boost snowpack by up to 12% during storms that already form naturally, a small change that ...

CLEVELAND — You might think that snow can only fall when it's freezing outside, but it turns out snow can still happen even when temperatures are above 32 degrees Fahrenheit. Here's how this ...

This causes repeated rounds of cold air to spill over the Great Lakes and create bands of heavy lake-effect snow off lakes ...

There are two ways snow can begin to form in clouds. When the air is very cold, water vapor can convert directly to ice through a process called “homogenous nucleation.” At temperatures between minus ...