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 thought of snow can conjure up images of powdery slopes, days out of ...

The Conversation is asking kids to send in questions they'd like an expert to answer. Amanda, age 5, wants to know how clouds' shapes are made. An expert explains. I’m a meteorologist, and I’ve been ...

Someone taking a walk in the snowy hills near the Swiss capital of Bern last winter would have been perplexed by a giant white balloon rising into the low-lying clouds. Near the hilltop where the ...

Factory pollution is changing the weather—but not in the way you might think. The tiny aerosol pollution particles poured out by industrial factories can trigger ice to form in the atmosphere, ...

Snow falling from clouds near Boulder, Colorado on Dec. 19, 2018 did not reach the ground — a classic example of virga. (Photo: ©Tom Yulsman) Mars is certainly cold. With temperatures that can plunge ...

Have you ever wondered how a cloud stays in the sky? In a recent conversation with my friend and colleague Alan Sealls, the AMS President-Elect told me that he pondered this very question, and it ...

Sign up for the Morning Brief email newsletter to get weekday updates from The Weather Channel and our meteorologists. L ate-fall into winter is prime time for lake ...

On Saturday, western Pennsylvania welcomed its first official day of winter with a Winter Weather Advisory — all thanks to lake-effect snow conditions. Lake-effect snow is something talked about in ...

Beginning Tuesday night, there will be a cold blast and lake-effect snow chances in Metro Detroit. What is lake effect snow, and how does it form? Lake-effect snow can happen when the surrounding land ...