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.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

Rising temperatures are thought to reduce the number of ice crystals in clouds, leading to the formation of liquid-dominated clouds. However, a new study has found that Arctic warming is causing an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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