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 ...

Imagine you’re floating at the top of a cloud and you’re made of a dust particle. It’s 5 degrees Fahrenheit. Water vapor freezes onto you, making an icy, three-dimensional prism. It has six flat sides ...

When snow falls from the sky, you don’t usually see individual ice crystals, but rather clumps of crystals stuck together.

Answer: Clouds form when sufficiently moist air is cooled to the dew point temperature of the air or below, so that either liquid water droplets form on cloud condensation nuclei, or in the case of ...

It's an incredible and very ordered formation as snow crystals form hexagonal or six-sided shapes. It's a shape which extends all the way down to the two hydrogen atoms that join with an oxygen atom ...