February 3, 2026

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Cracking Antarctic Sea Ice

Cracking Antarctic Sea Ice

Icebreakers play a critical role in delivering supplies to America's largest research base in Antarctica.

Seasons Change in Southwest Virginia

Seasons Change in Southwest Virginia

From autumn color to a winter-white finish, forested areas around Blacksburg trade foliage for snow over the span of two months.

Extreme January Cold

Extreme January Cold

Following a significant winter storm, frigid temperatures lingered in late January 2026 across a vast swath of the U.S.

The West Faces Snow Drought

The West Faces Snow Drought

Very wet—but very warm—weather in the western U.S. has left many mountainous regions looking at substantial snowpack deficits.

Snow Buries the U.S. Interior and East

Snow Buries the U.S. Interior and East

Satellites observed a frozen landscape across much of the country after a massive winter storm.

More from NASA Earth Science

NASA-ISRO Radar Mission Peers Through Clouds to See Mississippi River Delta

NASA-ISRO Radar Mission Peers Through Clouds to See Mississippi River Delta

A new image from the NISAR mission shows off the satellite’s ability to reveal details of Earth’s surfaces.

The North American Upstream Feature-Resolving and Tropopause Uncertainty Reconnaissance Experiment (NURTURE) is an airborne campaign that uses a suite of remote sensing instruments to collect atmospheric data on winter weather with a goal of improving the models that feed storm forecasts.

Users of NASA’s precipitation and land data assimilation products converted liquid precipitation rate to snowfall rate and snow depth using snow-to-liquid ratios.

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