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snowflake on a wool coat
Why does snow crunch underfoot?
Witness snowflake crystals created in a laboratory environment
Are all snowflakes actually unique?
frozen precipitation Figure 7: Thin section photographs illustrating snow-to-ice transformation at the depths of (left) 1 metre, changes in global average surface temperature and sea level and Northern Hemisphere snow cover
Learn how researchers determine a possible outbreak of Avalanches
How do snowflakes form?
How do snowflakes form?
Quizzes
Lightning over a farm field. Weather electricity thunderstorm light energy tree
Facts You Should Know: Weather Quiz
Umbrella colored like a rainbow sticking out above a sea of black umbrellas while it rains. (storm, weather)
Weather Words Vocabulary Quiz
water glass on white background. (drink; clear; clean water; liquid)
Water and its Varying Forms
rain. Child in the rain, wearing a rain coat, under a yellow umbrella. April Showers weather climate rain storm water drops
April Showers to March’s Lions and Lambs
Iceland, Glacier lagoon (Jokulsarlon)
Winter Weather Words Quiz
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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. Engraving by Cosomo Colombini (d. 1812) after a Leonardo self portrait. Ca. 1500.
10 Famous Artworks by Leonardo da Vinci
Panoramic view at sunrise of moai, Ahu Tongariki, Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Chile
6 Lost Civilizations
Ruminant. Deer. Red deer. Cervus elaphus. Buck. Stag. Antlers.
9 of the World’s Deadliest Mammals
Black widow spider
9 of the World’s Deadliest Spiders
American bison (Bison bison) also known as buffalo or plains buffalo on the prairie, western U.S.
What’s the Difference Between Bison and Buffalo?
Small, white rat (genus Rattus) on a glass table. (rodent, laboratory, experiment)
Cruel and Unusual Punishments: 15 Types of Torture
Christmas tree, holiday, pine
How Did the Tradition of Christmas Trees Start?

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Why does snow crunch underfoot?
Learn why snow makes a crunching sound when underfoot.
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz
Witness snowflake crystals created in a laboratory environment
Snow crystals growing in a laboratory.
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Are all snowflakes actually unique?
Discover how snowflakes form.
Video: © American Chemical Society (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Learn how researchers determine a possible outbreak of Avalanches
Overview of avalanches.
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz
How do snowflakes form?
See how snowflakes form.
Video: © American Chemical Society (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
How do snowflakes form?
Learn how snowflakes, also called snow crystals, form.
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Explore how interactions between the water cycle and landforms affect climate and weather
Learn about how interactions between the water cycle and landforms, as in orographic...
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
How does road salt work in the winter?
An explanation of how salt is used in the winter to melt ice on roadways.
Video: © American Chemical Society (A Britannica Publishing Partner)

Images

snowflake on a wool coat
Individual snowflake on the threads of a wool coat.
Yaroslav/Shutterstock.com
frozen precipitation
Classification of frozen precipitation.
Vincent J. Schaefer
Figure 7: Thin section photographs illustrating snow-to-ice transformation at the...
Courtesy of the U.S. Army; photograph A.J. Gow
changes in global average surface temperature and sea level and Northern Hemisphere snow cover
During the second half of the 20th century and early part of the 21st century, global...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
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