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 ...

Alpenglow comes from the German words Alpen (alps) and glühen (to glow). A phenomenon that most definitely occurs in the Alps, as well as other dramatic mountains such as the Rockies and Sierras ...

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With around 273,000 headwords — for example, if you look up the word “cat” in a dictionary, “cat” is the headword — in the second edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, but only 171,476 of them ...

Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow Sunday and predicted six more weeks of wintry weather, his top-hatted handlers announced to a raucus, record-sized crowd at Gobbler’s Knob in Pennsylvania.