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NASA Heads to Pacific Northwest for Field Campaign to Measure Rain and Snowfall

Nov 13, 2015 (SPX)

From Nov. 10 through Dec. 21, NASA and university scientists are taking to the field to study wet winter weather near Seattle, Washington. With weather radars, ...

Early snowfall strands hundreds in Pakistan

Oct 26, 2015 (AFP)

Hundreds of tourists were stranded Monday after the earliest snowfall in 40 years blocked a main highway in Pakistan's northern areas, dumping three feet of sno...

Forecasters look higher for clues to winter weather

Oct 15, 2015 (SPX)

Long-range winter weather forecasts could be twice as accurate by taking account of unusual winds miles up in the stratosphere, scientists have found. Meteorolo...

Sierra Nevada snowpack lowest in five centuries

Sep 15, 2015 (SPX)

Snowpack in California's Sierra Nevada in 2015 was at the lowest level in the past 500 years, according to a new report led by University of Arizona researchers...

Cold weather more lethal than hot spells, says study

May 20, 2015 (AFP)

Colder weather kills more people than hot spells, a probe into a key issue of public-health policy said on Thursday. Researchers looked into 74 million deaths b...

Snow and avalanche research: Remote assessment of avalanche risk

May 11, 2015 (SPX)

In cooperation with a Swiss research team, geographers of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have developed a novel measuring system relying on two...

California Tuolumne Snowpack 40 Percent of Worst Year

Apr 07, 2015 (JPL)

New NASA data find the snowpack in the Tuolumne River Basin in California's Sierra Nevada -- a major source of water for millions of Californians -- currently c...

Avalanche kills four soldiers in Indian Kashmir

Apr 04, 2015 (AFP)

An avalanche triggered by heavy snowfall killed four soldiers in the Ladakh region of Indian Kashmir near the border with China, the Indian army said Saturday. ...

Climate change does not cause extreme winters

Mar 31, 2015 (SPX)

Cold snaps like the ones that hit the eastern United States in the past winters are not a consequence of climate change. Scientists at ETH Zurich and the Califo...

Snowflakes become square with a little help from graphene

Mar 27, 2015 (SPX)

The breakthrough findings, reported in the journal Nature, allow better understanding of the counterintuitive behaviour of water at the molecular scale and are ...

Historical Satellite Images Reveal Snow is Melting Earlier in Wyoming

Mar 25, 2015 (SPX)

A NASA study of a basin in northwestern Wyoming revealed that the snowmelt season in the area is now ending on average about sixteen days earlier than it did fr...

Spring brings New York snow storm

Mar 20, 2015 (AFP)

New York welcomed the first day of spring Friday with a snow storm that could dump up to six inches (15 centimeters) in parts of the northeastern United States....

Cold comfort in Ulan Bator, world's chilliest capital

Mar 18, 2015 (AFP)

Clad in a fox fur hat and dog hair boots, Mongolian merchant Undrakhiin Batulzii says his compatriots have over centuries mastered the art of beating the brutal...

Boston sets unwanted snow record

Mar 16, 2015 (AFP)

Still reeling from storm after ferocious storm in the recent grim months, Boston has broken its record for snow recorded in one winter season, the National Weat...

Two dead in severe Bulgaria snowstorms

Mar 10, 2015 (AFP)

Two men have died in heavy snowstorms in Bulgaria that have left tens of thousands of people without electricity for days, authorities said Tuesday. The frozen ...

Airliner skids off La Guardia runway as winter storm hits US

Mar 05, 2015 (AFP)

An airliner skidded off a runway at New York's La Guardia airport Thursday and slid to halt just yards from frigid waters, as a snow storm battered the US coast...

Flights cancelled as ice-storm chills Dallas airport

Feb 28, 2015 (AFP)

A ferocious winter ice storm forced the cancellation of several hundred flights at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport on Saturday as more than two inches s...

Death toll from weekend avalanches in Alps rises to five

Feb 22, 2015 (AFP)

The weekend death toll in the vacation-packed Alps rose Sunday when a man was killed in an avalanche in France, after four people perished earlier in a snowslid...

Warnings after blizzards sweep across Middle East

Feb 20, 2015 (AFP)

Snow blanketed much of Israel, Jordan and Lebanon early on Friday, with many residents urged to stay in their homes because of blocked or icy roads. People in J...

Heavy snowstorm causes travel chaos in Istanbul

Feb 18, 2015 (AFP)

A heavy fall of snow on Wednesday caused travel chaos in Istanbul, forcing the temporary closure of Turkey's main airport and causing hundreds of traffic accide...