From the biggest snowfall of the season (thus far) to scathing winds and a surge of Arctic cold, it’s been one beast of a ...

Temperatures and the amount of moisture throughout the atmosphere are the most critical factors in snow formation. If ...

There are many types of dendrites, including stellar dendrites, fernlike stellar dendrites, which have branches with so many side branches, that they appear to look like a fern, and spatial dendrites.

That means a good environment for bigger fluffy stellar dendrites to form, which can stack up more efficiently to produce higher snowfall totals here on the ground. The latest NOAA digital ...