This causes repeated rounds of cold air to spill over the Great Lakes and create bands of heavy lake-effect snow off lakes ...

Snow is the classic of any winter precipitation and forms when temperatures are at or below freezing in the cloud and at to ...

Lake-effect snow has a tendency to dump massive amounts of snow in a very short period of time. How does it form? Why is it ...

Machine-made snow forms spherical balls instead of flakes, creating harder surfaces that affect skiing performance, but offer other tradeoffs that help with early season conditions.

Winter storms can bring all sorts of precipitation: snow, sleet, hail, freezing rain or even plain old rain. Why so much variety? The answer involves temperature changes as the precipitation falls.

A summit crew heading down Mount Washington in New Hampshire saw a rare weather phenomenon known as a "snow devil" on Wednesday. Researchers with the Mount Washington Observatory captured a photo of ...

It's looking increasingly likely that south Louisiana could get historic and potentially record-breaking amounts of snow Tuesday, but forecasters with the National Weather Service have been expecting ...

FOX6 Chief Meteorologist Tom Wachs explains how all the ingredients came together for a particularly intense band of ...

To produce lake effect snow, the air temperature 5,000 feet high needs to be at least 23 degrees Fahrenheit colder than the water temperature, and the air temperature 10,000 feet up needs to be at ...