Grand Canyon Cloud Inversion: Why Fog Can Fill the Canyon
Some mornings, the Grand Canyon seems to trade its rock layers for an ocean. White cloud fills the spaces between the cliffs, leaving the hi...
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Snow, Winter Weather & Natural Phenomena
Explore snowfall, winter storms, cloud formations and ice through weather stories and photography from around the world. Discover the natural phenomena that transform mountains and frozen landscapes.
Amtrak Meets a Snow-Covered Track: Nick Colvin’s Slow-Motion Film
The train arrives—and the snow arrives with it. Nick Colvin’s slow-motion film turns a wintry platform scene into a curling white wave, wit...
Snow on the Sahara’s Edge: Karim Bouchetata’s Aïn Séfra Photographs
Orange dunes striped with white snow are a wonderful double take. In December 2016, photographer Karim Bouchetata captured that contrast ne...
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...
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...
Monsoon II: Mike Olbinski’s Arizona Storm Timelapse
A storm can look solid in a still photograph: a wall of cloud, a bright fork of lightning, a dark band on the horizon. Mike Olbinski’s Mons...
A Pigeon Brought Indoors During a Calgary Hailstorm
The first photograph is almost all weather: a city street, trees and a pale covering of hail. The last is much more intimate, showing a man...
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 ...
Edge of Stability: Jeff Boyce’s Storm and Night-Sky Film
The cloud fills most of the picture, but the strip of land beneath it matters. It gives the storm a scale, a setting and a relationship wit...
Greenwood’s Crown-Flash Video: Light Above a Storm Cloud
A patch of light above a storm cloud was enough to make a cyclist in Greenwood, Indiana stop and reach for a phone. The resulting recording...
Tempescope: Ken Kawamoto’s Physical Weather Display
An umbrella rests beside a clear box in which water is falling. It is a pleasingly direct way to communicate rainy weather: instead of read...
Sam Smith’s Illinois Tornado Video: The April 2015 Storm in Context
A highway journey became a frightening encounter with severe weather on 9 April 2015. Sam Smith, travelling on business, recorded a tornado...
Ice-Storm Bumper Shells Left Behind by Parked Cars
The parking space is empty, but the front of a Jeep seems to remain. In these North Carolina photographs from 2015, a thin shell of ice hol...
Canadian Winter Humour: Snowbanks, Cold-Weather Scenes and Everyday Life
A calendar says March; the snow seems unconvinced. Elsewhere in this winter gallery, cars, wildlife and ordinary outdoor routines become th...
Twenty Thunderstorm Photographs: Light, Scale and Changing Skies
A lightning photograph divides a scene into two kinds of time: the patient landscape and the sudden flash. A canyon rim or dark shoreline g...
Seven Lightning Photographs: Landmarks, Volcanoes and Exposure
Lightning photographs turn brief flashes into patterns the eye can study. This collection includes volcanic scenes and an image assembled f...