CLEVELAND — Snowflakes, those delicate ice crystals, come in various shapes and sizes. This frozen precipitation is shaped by ...

Universally known to indicate that the winter season has arrived and known in the Inland Northwest to indicate that it is time to don warm boots and gloves to scrape your car before work, snow is ...

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 ...

It is physically impossible for a naturally occurring snowflake to be in anything other than a hexagonal crystalline shape. It’s because of the physics of how water molecules arrange themselves ...

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 ...