![Let It Snow! The Science of Winter Let It Snow! The Science of Winter](https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/snow/images/header0.jpg)
![How Much Snow Really Fell?](https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/snow/data1/tooltips/image1.jpg)
![Inside a “Snowstorm Bomb“](https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/snow/data1/tooltips/image0.jpg)
![Search for White Gold: Snowmelt](https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/snow/data1/tooltips/image3.jpg)
![On Spring Winds, Something Wicked Comes](https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/snow/data1/tooltips/image4.jpg)
![Cloud Seeding](https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/snow/images/radiometer-sm.jpg)
Cloud Seeding for Snow
How much snow does cloud-seeding produce? Soon scientists will be closer to knowing the answer. NSF-supported researchers have begun a cloud-seeding experiment in southwestern Idaho. Dubbed SNOWIE (Seeded and Natural Orographic Wintertime Clouds — the Idaho Experiment), the project is taking place in and near the Payette Basin, 50 miles north of Boise, Idaho.
![Winter Storm Chasing](https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/snow/images/pic01.jpg)
Storm-Chasing, Winter-Style
SCHUSS. The term for a straight, downhill ski run. In the land of the “Greatest Snow on Earth” — Utah — SCHUSS is also the moniker for storm-chasing, Old Man Winter-style.
![Conifer's View](https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/snow/images/pic02.jpg)
A Conifer’s View of Snow
If trees could talk, what winter tales they might tell: of the frozen soil in which they’re rooted, the snows that fall on their branches, the icy rivers and streams that flow beneath, and the health of the entire forest.
![Nature's Igloo](https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/snow/images/pic03.jpg)
Nature’s Igloo
The subnivium, it’s called, this refuge beneath the snow that’s insulated and maintains a constant temperature. It’s nature’s igloo for all winter creatures great and small.
![Winter Ice](https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/snow/images/pic04.jpg)
Where Have Our Winters Gone?
If you’re planning to skate on a frozen lake or river this winter, ski on a snowy slope, or, when spring arrives, depend on snowmelt to refill your water supply, you may need to think twice. December-to-March may be less like the winters we remember.
![Snowshoe Hare](https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/snow/images/snowshoehare.jpg)
The Tale of the Spruce vs. the Hare
It’s a new story of the race between the tortoise and the hare. Now it’s a dead heat between a white spruce tree and a snowshoe hare. Which will win? Scientists at the National Science Foundation Bonanza Creek Long-Term Ecological Research site in Alaska are chasing down answers.
Source: NSF News
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