Eurasian autumn snow has been widely regarded as a source of East Asian winter predictability, yet its influence is strongly non-stationary. Here we show that this non-stationarity reflects a ...

Dust has major impacts on snow albedo and snowmelt in the Upper Colorado River Basin (UCRB), which supplies water to much of the western United States. Dust is deposited through both dry (gravity and ...

On a cold winter day, it's easy to think of the landscape as frozen, silent, and asleep. Snow covers our fields and forests, trails crunch underfoot, and most signs of life seem to disappear. But just ...

Weather is more than just a colorful chart on your television screen or crossing your fingers for a snow day. Winter comes with temperature drops, bird migration, and bundling up. Here, winter also ...

You might notice something unusual on the ground after a winter storm, white shapes that look like logs, Swiss rolls, or rolled-up carpets. These are called snow rollers, and they’re essentially ...

When it comes to global warming trends, the Arctic is a troubling outlier. The Arctic warms nearly four times faster than the global average, and aerosols play an important role in that warming.

“In winter, things are down to their essence and their bare bones,” said David Lamon, the manager of the Fields Pond Audubon Center in Holden, Maine. For those in Northern climates, the outdoors in ...

This past weekend the landscape completely transformed - from rain-soaked and ice-covered bare earth to the clean slate of a fresh coat of snow. Snow on the ground, or the lack thereof, can have huge ...

A green long-jawed orbweaver spider was spotted hunting on top of snow in the Northeast. These spiders produce a natural antifreeze, allowing them to remain active in freezing temperatures. They ...