BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) - Even though most of North Dakota has seen less snowfall than normal so far this winter, the science behind snow formation is fascinating. Snowflakes form when a drop of ...

A huge snowstorm could dump more than two feet of snow all over the East Coast, and that means trillions and trillions of tiny snowflakes. Through advances in crystallography, scientists have learned ...

Image caption, From a single ice crystal, these amazing patterns form according to different weather conditions. Snowflakes are renowned for their uniqueness. No matter how many billions of them ...

That’s just scratching the surface of snowfall forecasting: wind can break apart snowflakes, warmer air at the ground can ...

but these are freshly fallen snowflakes, or snow crystals, resting on wool. They are around 1 millimeter in size and were captured using a simple, cheap photography technique. When the snow starts ...

can hold itself together long enough to form a massive slab that can slip down a mountainside as a catastrophic avalanche. Next time you catch a snowflake on your tongue, think about how geometry ...

When it is very cold, tiny ice crystals begin to form high up in the sky. More crystals grow on top of these ice crystals to create hexagonal shapes called snowflakes. Hexagonal means they have ...