If this winter feels strange, it’s not in your head. In the eastern U.S., residents have been suffering through one of the most frigid seasons in recent memory. Yet for much of the West, temperatures ...

If you live in the East, has this winter felt exceptionally cold to you? The data backs you up. Swaths of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic are in the midst of their coldest winter in more than 20 years ...

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Jessie Diggins is an endurance athlete. The Olympic cross-country skier describes the intensity of suffering her sport can inflict as a “pain cave.” It doesn’t frighten her; she’s used to digging deep ...

This winter has been an active one with parading storms and deep cold snaps. I feel like every time I wrap up one storm forecast, I’m preparing for another — and this winter is not showing any quit.

The saying “Let the Games begin!” first applied to the Winter Olympics in 1924. That was when the first official Olympic Games took place, representing the culmination of more than three decades of ...

There is a developed method to rank the severity of our winter. Let’s look to see if this winter has really been as harsh as we feel. The method is called the Winter Season Severity Index (WSSI). This ...

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All told, the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics are estimated to cause the loss of 5.5 square kilometers of snowpack and 34 million metric tons of glacial ice. Without the emissions caused by the ...

The 2026 Winter Olympics have brought skaters, skiers, snowboarders and whatever you call those daredevils who do skeleton to Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo, in the Italian Alps. The Games also draw up ...

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Three US Olympic bodies have changed the name of their shared athlete hospitality space at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics from “Ice House” to “Winter House,” following widespread protests in ...