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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 ...

Another rain versus snow line can also be used when talking about elevation. During the winter months in mountainous regions, ...

Sloughing is the slow, gradual shedding of soil, rock, snow or ice from a surface, often driven by gravity and weather over ...

Frost flowers are delicate ice formations that grow from plant stems or sea ice when very cold air pulls moisture outward and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...