Natural snow starts as a tiny ice crystal on an ice nucleus in a cloud. As the crystal falls through the air, it slowly grows into the classic six-sided snowflake. By comparison, human-made snow ...

These brilliant images show how researchers in Switzerland are using weather-modification techniques to understand how ice ...

These ice crystals are even more prevalent when there is light snow or snow flurries nearby from Lake Michigan. Snow is an ice crystal-- so when they are lofted in the air, they can reflect the ...

Pour warm water into a bucket. Add rock salt crystals to it. (A good ratio is 1 gallon water to 1 cup rock salt, but this is ...

Climate scientists thought stronger atmospheric rivers would accelerate Greenland's ice loss—but it might actually be slowing ...

Snow, sleet and freezing rain begin as the same thing in the upper atmosphere: snow or ice crystals. As that snow falls, what happens in the atmosphere and how cold the ground is determine whether ...