That bent light keeps traveling through the snowflake. Some of the light will hit different parts of the snowflake and bounce ...

From stars to needles to amorphous globs, scientists are demystifying a snowflake’s complex construction, showing how factors such as temperature can influence their shape.

Walking outside in cold weather, your feet make an unmistakably familiar sound; the crunch of snow underfoot. This is a sound ...

The blanket of frozen water crystals covering our high elevations from November through May is the state’s largest water reservoir by volume. The melting snow has immense influence over our ...

The anatomy of snowflakes has been studied for hundreds of years. But just what is it that makes one snowflake differ from ...

Flights landing Saturday night at Denver International Airport unwittingly helped trigger the formation of ice crystals in a ...

Facets describe the shape of the snow crystals that exist in the lower layers of the snowpack. Each new snowstorm forms layers that change over time. The snow that fell during Thanksgiving week was ...

The height of this region can change, but snow crystals only form in the air that is between -12 and -18 degrees Celsius. This area is highlighted by the blue circle There has to be enough ...