If the only reason you’re worried about global warming is that it will mean a shorter ski season, you can go ahead and buy that petrol-guzzling would-be tank you’ve been eyeing.
Empty ski resorts? Yeah, that’d be cool. Ski resorts that have been abandoned for four years, though? So. Much. More. Fun.
This is how giant machines clear the roads on mountains covered in a ridiculous amount of snow.
There's snow way you'll see a better powder-surfing invention than this today.
This has to be one of the more interesting ways to clear snow. In Colorado, US, road crews have a unique way to pre-emptively take care of snow build up in mountain passes: a World War II era 105-millimetre howitzer cannon that they lease from the US Army. See more >>
Let's just call it hoverboarding and be done with it.
The beauty of winter can be lost when constantly scraping ice off cars, and tromping through freezing slush. So you can savour the pretty scenes of all that snow that fell on the States, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly took this photo from the ISS. Read more >>
As you’ve no doubt heard, the East Coast of the US got walloped by a record-breaking winter storm. But sometimes, words simply can’t do justice to the magnitude of a meteorological event. You need images taken from 250 miles up. Read more >>
Quick! Something white, cold, and flaky is falling from the sky. Should you start eating it, perhaps by the spoonful?
It’s cold. It’s lonely. It’s really cold. It’s really lonely. It’s unfathomably cold. And it’s lonely. That’s what this mere glimpse of life on an Arctic expedition looks like.
Thanks to climate change Australia is seeing its coldest temperatures in decades, and last night, many Australians saw snow for the first time in their lives.
Looking at avalanches falling down mountains can only tell you so much. At Montana State University’s “subzero lab,” scientists are studying how avalanches happen by recreating them flake by flake.
It turns out there's a variety of biological and physical causes for frozen water to be anything but white.
Up until today, my plan for the robot takeover had been to flee to northern Canada, where deep snow and grizzly bears would keep me safe from Skynet. But not any more. All hail Skynet.
It's all to do with how large quantities of snow reacts to light.
With snow being no-show yet this year, take out your powder cravings watching people getting nailed with the stuff.
