From stars to needles to amorphous globs, scientists are demystifying a snowflake’s complex construction, showing how factors such as temperature can influence their shape.

Snowflakes are quite complex productions of our weather that we are all too familiar with here in the Four States. In this video you can see how snowflakes go from small molecules of dust and ...

PRESQUE ISLE, Maine (WAGM) - During the winter and early spring, you may notice a type of precipitation called graupel ...

We have been very lucky to have some perfect powder days in Summit this winter. Recently, we have all complained about the ...

This imparts not only stability but also beauty. Well, yes, the study of snowflake formation does have practical applications: scientists study snowflake structures in order to improve their ...

The flakes are a result of a saturated layer at cloud level, within the favorable snowflake formation zone. This may not dry out completely until late this week, when we expect the much ...

Snowflake and planetary rings abstraction ... This bears on natural and engineering processes as diverse as rain and snow formation, the emergence of planetary rings, and the flow of fluids ...