I spend a lot of time thinking about weather records. Some events seem so perfectly suited for setting records that they appear, with retrospect, unapproachable. For example, take the derecho …

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 …

Some weather disasters strike with a suddenness rivaled only by their ferocity. They are tornadoes, flash floods, derechos, blizzards and hurricanes; they lash out all at once, pummeling mankind from …

Once again this afternoon, pop-up storms with locally heavy rainfall are occurring across the eastern half of the United States. A potent ridge sits over this part of the country …

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 …

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, …

Tornado season has cooled down some for the time being, with a giant midlevel trough planted over the central US that’s keeping much of the CONUS unseasonably chilly. The only …

Ten years ago this morning, across the southeast, the air surely felt counterintuitively both heavy and light. After all, it certainly is not every day that winds blow to 25 …

Co-authored by Jacob and Meghan When people think back to 2020, some will remember the way the hurricanes simply would not stop crashing ashore, washing away homes in coastal Louisiana …