Have you ever noticed how peaceful and quiet things seem when snow is falling ?It's not your imagination, it really is quieter out when it's snowing. Snow flakes absorb soundwaves as they fall and ...

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 ...

When a snowstorm is in progress, falling snow greatly diminishes the distance that sound waves will carry. Snowflakes absorb and block the sound waves. Heavy rain has a similar effect. When the ground ...

The good news is that it is the snow plow, pushing all the snow from today’s 8-inch snowfall off the street. Yes! You are not stranded at home any longer, and can exit your subdivision without getting ...

Now think of a snowflake. There are hollow areas, and as that snow falls, there can be air trapped between layers of it. That ...

SEATTLE -- The first real snowfall of the season was moving through a swath of Western Washington Thursday, the first of at least a pair of winter storms forecast to move through the region through ...

“We’re very excited,” says Oriol Tarragó, the sound designer, supervising sound editor and sfx re-recording mixer for director J.A. Bayona‘s “Society of the Snow.” The film is Spain’s entry for Best ...

SEATTLE — Winter has arrived in western Washington. A weather system is bringing mountain snow and areas of snow and rain to the lowlands on Tuesday, with more possible later this week. Light snow ...