This Day In Weather History is a daily podcast by Chris Mei from The Weather Network, featuring stories about people, communities and events and how weather impacted them. Revelstoke, B.C., is ...

A 37-year-old man was killed after an avalanche "caught, carried and fully buried" him in the Utah backcountry while snowmobiling, officials said.

The avalanche in Italy occurred in a record-breaking heat wave during the country’s worst drought in 70 years, which was caused partly by a lack of winter snow in the mountains.

“Up this high, with the wind blowing into the gully, that upper layer of snow could be five, ten feet deep,” writes Eric Blehm in “The Darkest White: A Mountain Legend and the Avalanche That ...