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Articles

Can you Predict the Weather with a Snowball?
What does snow tell you about the weather other than it's cold outside? Find out what and how snowball lore can help predict the weather.

What Is Snow?
For some areas, it’s time to break out the snow shovel. Here are a few facts to think about when you clear the driveway.

Decorating the Christmas Tree
Decorating the Christmas tree can be traced back to the 7th century. A wide variety of decorations, including tinsel made with real silver, have been used over the centuries. Here are a few ideas for making your tree special.

The Lost Art of Doing Nothing
Are afternoons of lying in the grass pondering cloud shapes, evenings of watching sunsets, or mornings of counting snowflakes as they hit the windowpane all but extinct? Will we ever spend another hour or even a minute alone with our own thoughts? What incredible daydreams will never be had because we just simply do not have the time?

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Rain or Snow?
Wha are the deciding factors?!

Videos

Weather Wisdom: Snow
Learn why no two snowflakes are truly never alike.