Fractals, or repeating patterns, can be found in the tiniest ice crystal to pinecones and aspen leaves. The High Desert ...

A rare ice formation which only occurs in specific conditions has been spotted in the same woods two winters in a row. Known ...

Temperatures and the amount of moisture throughout the atmosphere are the most critical factors in snow formation. If ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has captured breathtaking images of iridescent clouds drifting across the Martian sky, revealing a ...

(THE CONVERSATION) When an unexpected rainstorm leaves you soaking wet, it is an annoyance. When a drought leads to fires, crop failures and water shortages, the significance of weather becomes ...

When temperatures drop, 'ice volcanoes' rise. That's what's happening right now across upstate New York, and one of the most well-known formations that appears during cold winters is in Letchworth ...

The great ice streams of the Antarctic and Greenland are like frozen rivers, carrying ice from the massive inland ice sheets to the sea—and a change in their dynamics will contribute significantly to ...

As Colorado Department of Transportation officials were contemplating closing the westbound bore of the Eisenhower-Johnson Memorial Tunne l to investigate new ice formations, the source of the ...

The hailstones grow bigger in the clouds as ice crystals and cloud droplets freeze onto them. They are suspended in the clouds by strong winds that push up into the storm. Finally, once the ...

BRAVAIS, in his great memoir 1 on this subject, divides circumzenithal arcs into two classes, ordinary and extraordinary. “Les arcs circumzenithaux ordinaires sont les arcs tangents aux halos de ...