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 ...

Warmer waters are fueling stronger, snowier storms—at least for now. Here’s how scientists think this phenomenon will evolve ...

Although lake-effect snow typically impacts the Michigan border of Lake Michigan, it can — like on Nov. 10 — hit Wisconsin's ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Lake effect snow is dependent on the Great Lakes water temperature and how much of the lake is frozen. But what does the current ice concentration look like and how does this affect ...

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.

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Snow isn't common in the Coastal Bend, but it's not impossible. Everything needs to line up perfectly to get snow down here. First, the cold air already needs to be in place, ...

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 ...