Each snowflake’s shape reflects the atmospheric conditions it encounters, helping meteorologists study precipitation patterns ...

A video of a couple witnessing perfectly shaped snowflakes on Utah's Great Salt Lake has gone viral on social media.

CLEVELAND — Snowflakes, those delicate ice crystals, come in various shapes and sizes. This frozen precipitation is shaped by specific temperature and humidity conditions. The formation of ...

When snow falls from the sky, you don’t usually see individual ice crystals, but rather clumps of crystals stuck together.

They are seed crystals, from which a snowflake derives and grows. As the seed crystal drifts through clouds, water molecules attach to it and take the shape of a hexagonal base. It's important to ...