Alpenglow comes from the German words Alpen (alps) and glühen (to glow). A phenomenon that most definitely occurs in the Alps ...

Anyone else already experiencing winter fatigue? This winter season has come in full throttle – with persistent extremely ...

Pillow drift may sound more like a sleepy word, but it actually has to do with snow. We have heard about snow drifts in ...

Storm Enzo brought this rare phenomenon to parts of North Carolina this week. Learn about what it is, and why it happens, in ...

J ennifer Gray is a weather and climate writer for weather.com. She has been covering some of the world's biggest weather and climate stories for the last two decades. The Weather Company’s ...

If you are loving this cold weather, then you might just be! A chionophile is any organism that can survive and thrives in a cold environment. The word comes from the Greek words chion, ...

Lastly, hail is NOT a type of winter weather. It only forms in strong to severe thunderstorms. We’ll have more on both graupel and hail in future installments of “Weather Word of the Week.” ...

Pillow drift may sound more like a sleepy word, but it actually has to do with snow. We have heard about snow drifts in weather words before, but a pillow drift has a different twist. Pillow ...