"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Monday night might not have brought much snow to Tulsa, leaving some disappointed, myself included. But other locations in Oklahoma racked up accumulations, with 2 inches reported in Kiowa and in ...

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 ...

Snowflakes come in a myriad of shapes and sizes. As a child, you probably had the experience of making your own snowflake with a few snips of the scissors and white paper. Your particular design ...

Graduate student Ryan Szczerbinski examines instrumentation called a Differential Emissivity Imaging Disdrometer, or DEID, developed by University of Utah researchers and installed at Alta near the ...

Steve asks: “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 ...