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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 -- 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 ...

Most of us dream of a white Christmas — and so was Erie, Pennsylvania, before they were hit with almost 63 inches of snow in the three days since Christmas Eve. Whether 5 feet of snow sounds like a ...

Editor’s note: This is a live account of updates from the Puget Sound region’s snowy Monday. A full recap and outlook for the rest of the week is available here. Puget Sound residents woke up to ...