When you hold a lighter or a match to a snowball, the butane, lighter fluid, or wood particles are burning. As they burn, they release soot. Because the snowball is cold, the soot instantly condenses ...

The surrounding air affects how snowflakes develop. In drier air, growth is slow and produces simple, compact or column-like designs that create dry, powdery snow. Humid air accelerates snowflake ...

Snow in Hawaii? Yes, you read that right. While most people think of the islands as a warm, tropical paradise, it’s not uncommon to see snow on the volcanic peaks of the Big Island. And this week is ...

Urgent winter storm warnings have been issued in four states as heavy snow and dangerous travel conditions threaten to make roads impassable through the weekend. The National Weather Service (NWS) has ...

Winter storm warnings have been issued to five states across the U.S. by the National Weather Service (NWS), as it warns that up to 35 inches of snow and high winds could hit parts of the country from ...

This week, winter weather arrived on the Hawaiian Islands at the summits of their highest volcanoes, where snow, ice and fog have blanketed the peaks of Maunakea and Mauna Loa. The snowy conditions ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... More than a foot of snowfall is forecast this week for Colorado’s mountains, according to the National Weather Service. Six to 14 inches of snow is expected ...

Syracuse, N.Y. -- The lake effect snow machine that dropped record snow on Syracuse three days ago has turned its attention to Oswego County. As much as 4 feet of snow has fallen on several towns in ...

A shovel-worthy winter storm moved into New York City Friday evening, making for a messy and potentially hazardous start to the weekend. The National Weather Service issued a Winter Storm Warning for ...

A short break fades quickly as a series of systems reloads the Pacific Northwest with the best snow from Tuesday night through Thursday (January 6-8, 2026), when multiple mountains stack up meaningful ...

Guinea-Bissau's health minister says the government is suspending a Trump administration-backed hepatitis B vaccine study on ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: It used to be thought that bizarre interactions between subatomic particles known as neutrinos could be explained by another type of neutrino. The ...