Cold weather often gets blamed for winter illness. Meteorologist Leslie Hudson explains the science behind why viruses spread more easily this time of year.

A woman, a child, and her dog walking into a house with basement windows in winter. - Aj_watt/Getty Images While it's easy to dismiss your basement as the coldest part of the house in the winter time, ...

It is firmly winter right now, and we can all feel it. The temperature is chilly, sometimes dipping into the negatives, with cold winds and plenty of snow. Living in western New York, you get used to ...

So it may come as a surprise to many that nowhere in the U.S. had a record cold winter this year. Nowhere even came close. What did set records was heat. The western half of the country spent the ...

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. Cold weather tightens blood vessels and raises blood ...

All-season tires are designed to provide a balance of performance across a variety of conditions, which makes them appealing for everyday driving. They offer convenience because you don’t have to ...

Little winters are common in the spring when periods of cold weather pop up in the middle of warm weather that is more typical for the season.

There was a decisive winner to the Lower 48 states’ split screen winter — a battle between frigid cold in the East and record warmth in the West. Anyone in the East who shivered through this winter ...

While it's easy to dismiss your basement as the coldest part of the house in the winter time, don't write off the temperature difference as a simple fact of the season. There may be a sneaky reason ...