Snowfall has billion-dollar effect on business, Olympians
It's no stretch to say that snow is the key to success for Jon Lillis.
It's no stretch to say that snow is the key to success for Jon Lillis.
Environment
Dec 19, 2017
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Roaring storms that brought California almost a year's worth of snow and rain in a single month should make state water managers' Sierra snowpack survey Thursday a celebration, marking this winter's dramatic retreat of the ...
Environment
Feb 2, 2017
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Here's a secret for you: At NOAA's National Weather Service, we're like kids when it comes to snow. We love it! If you love snow like we do, become a "snow-it-all" in time for the start of the winter solstice, which starts ...
Environment
Dec 22, 2016
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Although ski season is behind us, serious skiers are already looking ahead to next season and searching for ways to shave split-seconds off their race times. Now scientists may have a new way to help—perhaps in time for ...
Materials Science
May 11, 2016
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Blanketed by winter snow, orchards are mostly idle around central Washington, the production hub of the nation's top apple producing state.
Other
Feb 25, 2016
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Snow—that icon of winter—blankets the land with a beautiful silence. Love it or hate it, we all depend on snow. Our year-round water supply largely comes from snowmelt.
Environment
Jan 14, 2016
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Snow covers some 40 percent of Earth's land masses year in and year out. And, as scientists are discovering, snow is critical to animals and plants that live in northern latitudes, as well as those in far southern latitudes ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 6, 2016
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It may be hard to believe for a country that's shivering from Maine to Miami, but 2015 has gotten off to a rather toasty start.
Environment
Feb 19, 2015
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In the wild world of winter weather, location is everything, which New York and Massachusetts learned too well Tuesday.
Environment
Jan 27, 2015
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It's a foggy fall morning, and University of Washington researcher Susan Dickerson-Lange pokes her index finger into the damp soil beneath a canopy of second-growth conifers. The tree cover is dense here, and little light ...
Environment
Nov 13, 2013
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