Grand Canyon Cloud Inversion: How Fog Fills the Canyon in Winter
On rare winter mornings the Grand Canyon disappears. Cold, saturated air fills the gorge with a sea of white cloud, and the buttes and templ...
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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 Train Hits Snow at Rhinecliff: Nick Colvin’s Slow-Motion Video
A southbound Amtrak train sweeps into Rhinecliff station, New York, and meets a track buried under fresh snow. In Nick Colvin’s slow-motion...
Snow in the Sahara: Karim Bouchetata's Aïn Séfra Photos, December 2016
On 19 December 2016, snow fell on the orange dunes outside Aïn Séfra, a town in northwestern Algeria sometimes called the "gateway to ...
Light Pillars: How Ice Crystals Turn Streetlights into Columns of Light
On a bitterly cold night, the lights of a town can suddenly send tall columns of colour straight up into the sky. Blue, yellow and white sh...
Boiling Water Into Snow: The Science of Hot Water in Extreme Cold
Toss a pot of boiling water into the air on a bitterly cold day and something magical happens: instead of splashing on the ground, it bursts...
Monsoon II: Mike Olbinski’s Arizona Storm Time-Lapse of the 2015 Season
Shelf clouds rolling over the desert, rain shafts hanging from towering cells, walls of blowing dust and lightning almost everywhere you loo...
Calgary Hailstorm Pigeon Rescue and Why Alberta Gets So Much Hail
During a hailstorm in Calgary in 2015, a man ran out into the street while ice was still pounding the pavement. Moments later he was back i...
Mount Washington Weather: The 231 mph Wind and the World's Worst Weather
Mount Washington in New Hampshire is only 6,288 ft (1,917 m) high, yet its summit has some of the most violent weather on Earth. In April 19...
Edge of Stability: Jeff Boyce’s 70,000-Photo Storm and Night-Sky Time-Lapse
In May and June 2015 California police officer Jeff Boyce took five weeks off work, loaded his truck with cameras and went looking for the ...
Crown Flash Video from Greenwood, Indiana: Dancing Light Above a Storm
In June 2015 a cyclist in Greenwood, Indiana, noticed a strange light above an approaching thunderstorm, pulled over and started filming. T...
Tempescope: Ken Kawamoto's Weather Box with Real Rain, Mist and Lightning
Tempescope is a small translucent box that shows tomorrow's weather by staging it: rain falls inside, mist rolls in for clouds, lights ...
Illinois Tornado Video: Sam Smith’s Close-Up Footage of 9 April 2015
On 9 April 2015, Sam Smith was driving across northern Illinois on a business trip when a huge, dark tornado crossed the highway ahead of h...
Ice Storm Bumper Shells: The Frozen Jeep Grille at Vidant Medical Center
After an ice storm in February 2015, visitors to the Vidant Medical Center car park in Greenville, North Carolina, found something odd in a...
Canadian Winter Memes: Chinooks, Moose and Cars Buried in Snowbanks
Canadians have a long winter and a sense of humour to match. This set of memes, shared on Imgur, labels everyday winter scenes “Canadian”: ...
Lightning Photos: 20 Thunderstorms Over Cities, Canyons and a Volcano
A lightning bolt lasts a fraction of a second, but it heats the air around it to about 50,000 °F (27,700 °C), roughly five times hotter tha...
Lightning Photography: 7 Strikes from Ikaria to Eyjafjallajökull and Paris
Lightning lasts a fraction of a second, but a camera on a tripod can hold it still. These seven photographs catch it at two erupting volcan...