Light Pillars: How Ice Crystals Transform Ordinary Lights
A row of lights seems to have stretched straight up from a snowy neighbourhood. Blue, yellow and white columns hang above the roofs, as tho...
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Hot Water in Extreme Cold: What the White Cloud Does and Does Not Prove
A pale fan opens above a snowy yard and hangs in the air. Videos of hot water meeting extreme cold look like instant snowfall, but that tid...
Mount Washington: Extreme Weather and the Work of Measuring It
A building seems to have grown a white coat. A tower has lost its sharp outline beneath ice. On Mount Washington, the photographs make the ...
Eight Cloud Forms: A Gallery of Structure and Light
Clouds can resemble lenses, breaking waves or a rough sea seen from underneath. Their shapes offer clues to atmospheric processes, but a dr...