Weather is more than just a colorful chart on your television screen or crossing your fingers for a snow day. Winter comes with temperature drops, bird migration, and bundling up. Here, winter also ...

I moved a little bit inland, away from the Maine coast, because I got tired of the ocean’s moderating effect; we would have rain along the coast, but not so many miles inland there would be feet of ...

The snow this past weekend was a terrific introduction to winter. It has been so unseasonably warm recently I was afraid I hadn’t moved far enough north. The duality of snow is one of my favorite ...

The subnivean zone provides a winter refuge for mice and other small animals. Submitted photo On a cold winter day, it’s easy to think of the landscape as frozen, silent, and asleep. Snow covers our ...

The autumn interlude between the dropping of the leaves until the snow cover, a time that I like to call AutWin, usually lasts about four weeks (roughly from Oct. 20 to Nov. 20), but this year, it ...

Alpine snow dynamics encompass the accumulation, persistence and melt of seasonal snowpacks that regulate mountain hydrology, ecology and socio-economic activities. Climatic warming has led to rising ...

Snow cover is a critical component of the Earth system, influencing regional hydrology, surface energy balance and ecosystem functioning. Changes in the timing, duration and spatial extent of snow ...