“Looking at things at a very, very fast rate allows us to observe weird and wonderful phenomena,” Salamat says, calling the ...

Chances are that all your encounters with frozen water—while trudging through slushy winter streets, perhaps, or treating yourself to cool summer lemonades—have been confined to one structural form of ...

FARGO — Frost and snow are made of ice but form as intricate crystals, whereas ice that forms on a lake or a puddle is more of a hard blob of water. Impurities aside, water is made of water and ice ...

Rare rime ice and ground-level ice crystals form across Boise as deep temperature inversion creates perfect conditions for dual winter phenomena.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Snowflakes form when a cold water droplet freezes onto particulates (like dust or pollen) in the atmosphere, creating an ice crystal. As the ice crystal falls through the sky, ...

Discover how ice crystals and winter skies create sundogs, sun pillars and halos — and when to look up from the Nature Center ...

On January 30, 2026, in Tennessee, USA, @BigNastyWeather shared close-up videos capturing dendrite snow crystals forming during the early stages of Winter Storm Gianna at the National Weather Service ...

The other day I posted a bragging-type sunset picture taken from our backyard and posted it. Someone skipped the killer reds and oranges and noted all the pretty white snow covering everything. I had ...