A safety device helped maintain a buried person’s oxygen levels for up to 35 minutes, tests show, buying crucial time for an avalanche rescue.

A physics professor gives us a lesson in snowflake science while our own AJ Burnett tells us how and why ice storms form. We also meet a local college student who studied glaciers in Alaska and find ...

You might not recognize Ken Libbrecht on the street, but the odds are good you’ve seen his handiwork. Libbrecht is a physicist specializing in snowflakes, and his passion for ice crystals has made him ...

Snowflakes are commonly considered delicate "winter beauties," but there is an interesting secret within the complexity of their designs. Their six-sided patterns predict weather, snowflakes are much ...

The Flathead Avalanche Center is set to host its 15th annual snow and avalanche workshop.The workshop will take place from 10 ...

Explore the extraordinary beauty of ice crystals, and how, what, when, and why these formations occur. Fun hands-on exercises and guided science experiments encourage budding meteorologists to explore ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Snowflakes form when a cold water droplet freezes onto particulates (like dust or pollen) in the atmosphere, creating an ice crystal. As the ice crystal falls through the sky, ...

This causes repeated rounds of cold air to spill over the Great Lakes and create bands of heavy lake-effect snow off lakes Erie, Ontario, Huron, Michigan and Superior. In the simplest form: warm lake ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Snow flurries flurries fell across parts of Middle Tennessee Wednesday morning. Even though the light snow didn’t cause any impacts, they did stick around long enough for ...