It's not often a storm generates the need for new language. Winter Storm Fern birthed the word "snowcrete" to describe what ...

When describing how much snow has fallen, there are a lot of subjective terms thrown around. But one in particular has a ...

Languages are windows into the worlds of the people who speak them – reflecting what they value and experience daily. In our recently-published study we took a broad approach towards understanding the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the winter, it’s quite common in the mountainous regions for meteorologists to talk about snow “above 5,000 feet” or “above ...

As the winter months begin setting up, keep your eyes peeled for something truly mesmerizing. Winter sometimes leaves us with tiny natural surprises, and one of the most whimsical is the snow roller.

Languages are windows into the worlds of the people who speak them—reflecting what they value and experience daily. Using computational methods, we identified areas of vocabulary that are ...

“The winds of change” have real impacts in the Great Lakes region. Lake-effect snow is common downwind of all five Great Lakes during the late fall and winter months, but why does it happen? As we get ...