The map I’ve put together for snowfall totals has a fairly wide range of 4 to 8 inches. During Saturday, after we get even ...

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.

Jennifer Rossi caught some amazing images of singular dendrite snowflakes during Saturday's light snow. Dendrites are snow crystals with branches that resemble a tree. There are many types of ...

Even though the snowflakes that make up snow are always hexagonal, they are always different. Some snowflakes have very simple shapes, but others, like dendrite snowflakes, have lots of different ...

Lots of Mainers woke up to snow Monday morning. While no two snowflakes are identical, temperatures determine their ...

plates and dendrites, which create the smooth and light snow characteristic of Hokkaido. But the team’s numerical simulations showed that if global warming increased, the percentage of rimed ...

It all begins the atmosphere layer known as the dendritic growth zone which is located 5,000 feet above the surface and that what we see with snow growth. As I mentioned there’s 35 different ...