Live in the Great Plains or Pacific Northwest? You know about Chinook winds! Chinooks occur on the lee side of a mountain & cause dramatically warmer weather.
Everything you need to plan a Northern Lights trip - where to see Aurora Borealis in the US, best time of year & time of day to see the Northern Lights, and best apps & sites to stay up-to-date with the Aurora Borealis lights near you.
Have you noticed how different the 4 weather seasons are across the US? See when spring starts, when summer starts, when fall starts, when winter starts this year.
Winter weather can do strange things - like cause extreme blizzards, snow tornadoes, and even weird icy formations. Don't believe me? Check out these videos!
See how to interpret dew point & relative humidity numbers that you see on weather reports. Here's how they relate to the heat index (the "feels like" temp)
Have you ever seen & heard lightning and thunder during a snowstorm? That's thundersnow! See how thundersnow storms are different from regular thunderstorms
As a weather geek, I set out to find basic info and facts on winter storms - so I could better understand what folks up North have to go through each winter.
Each snow flake that falls every winter is a unique and delicate work of Mother Nature. While research on snowflakes is still emerging, we didn't know much about snowflakes at all until William Bentley dedicated much of his life to snow flake research a century ago.
