"I read your article about the biggest snowflakes, and was wondering what causes the difference in size of the flakes. We get 'snow pellets' here along with what a co-worker called 'cotton ball flakes ...

Snow showers generated by a north-northeast wind fetch over Lake Michigan give Chicagoans a frequent glimpse of larger-than-average snowflakes. Most snowflakes measure in the 0.02 inch to 0.2 inch ...

Monday night might not have brought much snow to Tulsa, leaving some disappointed, myself included. But other locations in Oklahoma racked up accumulations, with 2 inches reported in Kiowa and in ...

Dec. 10 (UPI) --As many children on the East Coast taste a snowflake for the first time this season, kids and parents may be curious about the fluffy crystals. Why don't they look like the ones on the ...

Since at least the 19th century, people have periodically claimed to see giant snowflakes falling from the sky -- big ones the size of saucers and plates, or even larger, their edges turned up, their ...

Snowflakes come in a myriad of shapes and sizes. As a child, you probably had the experience of making your own snowflake with a few snips of the scissors and white paper. Your particular design ...

Individual snow crystals tend to be small, but they sometimes cling together to form much larger snowflakes. When the temperatures is near freezing (32 degrees), snow crystals partially melt and tend ...

How fast snowflakes fall can have important implications for the speed of climate change, according to new research. Scientists studying how snowflakes swirl towards the ground found they all fall in ...

Graduate student Ryan Szczerbinski examines instrumentation called a Differential Emissivity Imaging Disdrometer, or DEID, developed by University of Utah researchers and installed at Alta near the ...