Snow level is the elevation where precipitation changes from rain to snow, shaping snowfall amounts and winter conditions.

A hard freeze is when temperatures drop to 28 degrees Fahrenheit or colder for several hours, causing widespread damage to ...

A snowbelt is a region that gets consistent, heavy snowfall in the colder months, often in the form of lake-effect snow.

An Alberta Clipper is a fast-moving winter storm from Canada that brings quick bursts of light snow, gusty winds, and a sharp ...

When you look at the atmosphere over a long period of time, it appears to move like a fluid. And just like a fluid, the atmosphere often moves in waves. When meteorologists are working to determine if ...

The further out you go in a weather forecast, the harder it is for meteorologists to know what’s going to happen. So how do they get an idea of what’s coming down the pipe several days or weeks ahead ...

As we get deeper into the winter season, winter weather alerts will be a given. Winter weather alerts are either a watch, advisory or warning, and are issued based upon the threat level. Knowing how ...

Beyond more common weather terms lies a field of rarely used but humorous monikers to describe the weather around us. Some were just invented, some have been around for hundreds of years. Here are a ...

This segment originally appeared in today's edition of the Morning Brief newsletter. Sign up here to get weekday updates from The Weather Channel and our meteorologists. When you hear the word ...

Jenny Offill talks to Mary Laura Philpott about WEATHER. “Hope cannot exist in and of itself. I can't just be hopeful for the sake of it. I find that I have to figure out actions that feel like they ...