This messy mix of winter precipitation often impacts the region during late winter and early spring. Meteorologist John Burchfield explains what differentiates them.

This essay is a follow up on the photograph published in the Jan. 16 Commonwealth (pictured above) that showed duckweed ...

A new study published in Communications Earth & Environment gives possible insight into the underprediction of sea ice ...

Multiple departments are warning residents of power outages, downed trees, and blocked roadways across the region. Residents ...

In everyday life, we typically encounter water in one of three familiar states—solid, liquid or gas. But there are in fact ...

Researchers identify a new mechanism that allows avalanches containing a mixture of rock and ice to travel very long distances.

The seemingly endless cycle of snow, torrential rain and disruptive weather will continue this weekend as another powerful ...

Overnight freezing rain made for a slippery commute Thursday morning in the Chicago area. Zubaer Khan/Sun-Times file Share After an ice storm blanketed most of the area in sheets of ice ...

Feb. 7 (UPI) --Firefighters in British Columbia ventured out onto a frozen river to rescue a deer that wandered onto the ice and found itself unable to stand on the slippery surface. Kamloops Fire ...

At Lehigh Valley International Airport, 0.3 inches of snow was recorded. However, the bigger story was the ice, with just under a 10th of an inch of freezing rain recorded at the airport ...

After an ice storm blanketed most of the area in sheets of ice, making for a slick and icy morning commute Thursday, gusty winds were expected to whip through the Chicago area Thursday night.