What a wind! If it feels like the wind has been consistently stronger recently, you're correct. It's the windy time of year ...
Summer 2024 was officially the Northern Hemisphere’s hottest on record. In the United States, fierce heat waves seemed to hit somewhere almost every day. Overall, the global average temperature was ...
An energized Pacific jet is spawning storms and atmospheric rivers directed at the Northwest, while California sits just ...
NORFOLK, Va. — Heading into the cooler months, we can certainly see some cold snaps make their way into the area. But what's going on in the atmosphere that causes these cooler-than-average ...
A recent study in the journal Nature shows that when the summer jet stream over Europe veers north or south of its usual path, it brings weather extremes that can exacerbate epidemics, ruin crop ...
A weak coastal low will bring clouds and a few stray showers Wednesday before the storm track resets farther north, leaving ...
Near record-breaking wind over the mid-Atlantic region pushed east-bound commercial planes to supersonic speeds this weekend. One passenger plane, a Virgin Atlantic flight traveling from Washington to ...
Airline meteorologists in South America were happy last week. They had found what they had been looking for—a “jet stream” of high-velocity wind in the sub-stratospheric sky. Apparently caused by ...
When the bubonic plague reached England in the summer of 1348 — spread by fleas, lice, or infected humans, according to the latest theories — it reached a breeding ground for disease. Londoners’ ...