Graupel is a snow particle (or snow pellet) that is irregularly-shaped. Graupel is formed when the snow pelts collect snow crystals, rian, or partially melted snow stick, like glue, to the snow pellet – which adds an icy layer on the outside.
Chances are, you’ve seen lightning light up the sky numerous times. Thunderstorms, and the lightning associated with them, are fairly common occurrences, depending on where you live.
Chances are, you’ve likely seen many rainbows in your life, whether it’s the classic bow shape of colors painted across the sky or just a quick glimpse of rainbow colors peaking through the spray of a sprinkler on a hot summer day.
As the cold days of winter fade away, spring is starting to go into full gear across the United States. The National Center for Environmental Information has released their climate statistics from this past winter.
Weather folklore has been going on for generations and was mostly started by sailors many centuries ago and possibly even from the very beginning of time.
Derechos are rare because for them to thrive for such a long time with such intensity, they need consistent fuel (instability) and enough shear throughout the environment to support constant wind speeds of that nature.
There are three stages of a thunderstorm: the cumulus stage, the mature cumulus stage, and the dissipating stage.
In the northernmost region of the large island of Hawai’i, there is a tall mountain that separates the east from the west: Kohala Mountain. It has long been a trademark of the region for its incredible effect on the island. It’s responsible for creating the obvious rift in geography between the leeward and windward sides of the mountain that one can see in the image above. What about the mountain though causes one side to be lush with v […]
Astronomical Spring is here for those in the Northern hemisphere, and more “spring-like” weather is approaching.
The State of Nebraska, along with several nearby states, is slowly recovering from one of the most extreme flooding events in recent memory.
Recent tornado outbreaks in the Southeast U.S. have spawned talk of extreme severe weather that is occuring in an area of the country that is not typically used to such extreme tornado outbreaks.
Cyclones are typical for Mozambique during this season but there are growing concerns that the weather patterns have increased in intensity.
?Have you ever experienced a period of grey, wet weather that seems to drag on forever?
Late January and early February of this year brought an outbreak of frigid arctic air to a large portion of the U.S. with temperatures in the north-central portion of the U.S. the coldest that they have been in over 20 years.
Our long time friend, mentor, and charter Weather Factory member, J.B. Elliott, passed away on May 11, 2015. Click HERE to read James' tribute.
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