"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 ...

DOVER — As New England nestles firmly in the new winter, the old wives' tales come out in full force: Will my tongue stick to that frozen pole? If the first calf born during the winter is white, will ...

Anyone who has made snowflakes by cutting up folded pieces of paper, but has never actually seen them drift down from the sky, probably has a distorted view of their size. Most of them aren't that big ...

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 form when supercooled water vapor freezes around particles in clouds. Temperature and humidity dictate snowflake shape; needles form around -5 to -10°C. No two snowflakes are alike due to ...

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 ...