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 ...