A front end loader dumps snow into a snow melter after a winter storm in New York on January 29, 2026. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS ...
Headline risk Snow totals often appear as the headline when a winter storm intensifies rapidly offshore. The more insidious threat, however, follows: water with nowhere to escape, blown on shore by ...
When you hold a lighter or a match to a snowball, the butane, lighter fluid, or wood particles are burning. As they burn, they release soot. Because the snowball is cold, the soot instantly condenses ...
In many regions, the majority of summer water supply arrives in winter—frozen, delayed, and critically misjudged. Snow has a public relations problem. It is treated as a temporary inconvenience, ...