Heat is pervasive, searing, angry. It swells and crashes over us like waves, smothering and suffocating and crushing. If cold is a knife, heat is a hammer. This week, from …

It’s amazing what two months of a persistent atmospheric pattern can do in an environment as fragile as the West’s. In 2017, two months of repetitive, fanning atmospheric river events …

A significant round of thunderstorms capable of producing highly damaging winds, large to giant hail, and scattered tornadoes will be possible across the northern Plains this evening. A synoptic-scale environment …

Low pressure systems are the drama queens of the atmosphere. As air erupts upwards to fill mid-atmospheric vacuums, rotating cyclonically with the coriolis force, it can smash airmasses together with …

Every May, there are a few days that the Plains of the central US see an astonishing feat of nature. As sinking troughs incite low-level mass removal, brisk southerly flow …

Memorial day weekend is often cited as the unofficial start of summer. It is the date after which swimming pools open and beach attendance surges, and is often marked by …

A large area of low pressure in the Northern Indian Ocean, recently upgraded to the delineation of Cyclone Yaas, could end up a significant weather threat to parts of India …

Today marks a somber anniversary in weather history, ten years to the day from arguably the single most devastating thunderstorm in the era of modern meteorology (1950-present). On May 22nd, …

It isn’t uncommon in July- just east of the southern Rockies, thunderstorms developing along the hilly topography encounter an environment characterized by moderate dewpoints but incredibly impressive mid and low …