When we talk about snow characteristics, such as “light and fluffy” or “heavy and wet,” what are we actually talking about? Meteorologist Mitchel Coombs breaks it down in the video above. When we use ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Snow blankets the world in beauty, but it can cause significant problems when it piles up. Heavy snowfall doesn’t just disrupt travel—sometimes making roads completely impassable—but ...

David Hill is a professor at OSU in its Water Resources program. He said snowpack was traditionally measured at its usual peak, on April 1. Instead, “We chose an approach that is a little bit more ...

An error has occurred. Please try again. Many Mainers would probably like to see the ubiquitous mounds of snow disappear all at once and replaced by brown grass and ...

CU Boulder researchers apply machine learning to snow hydrology in Colorado mountain drainage basins, finding a new way to accurately predict the availability of water Determining how much water is ...

Roofs collapsing under heavy snow, mini-avalanches in cities, and flash floods are just some of the winter headaches that could be resolved if there were a better way to track snow cover. With that in ...

Snow properties such as snow density will likely change in a warmer climate. Changes in depth and extent of snow cover have been shown to affect soil nutrient dynamics and plant growth; however, ...

Nepal's first nationwide survey of the threatened snow leopard estimated nearly 400 of the elusive big cats in the Himalayan nation, wildlife officials said Tuesday. Snow monkeys living in one of the ...

Above: Two French scientists sample a vertical snow profile for a snow trench project at Concordia Station, Antarctica. The trench itself was cut with a snow plow, and the walls later cleaned and ...

The Fire Service in the Midwest has noted an increase in roof overloading scenarios due to the significant amount of snowfall in the past months. With this, there has also been an increase in ...