CAPE is a term you’ll hear a lot especially in severe weather season. CAPE stands for Convective Available Potential Energy and is a way of quantifying how much energy there […]
You’ll often hear from meteorologists and weather folks of all sorts that a front of some type is in the forecast. But what is a front and why do different […]
To have a place in the Midwest, where all the stuff happens, which is not as common in Switzerland: Tornadoes, ice storms, turning on heat and A/C at the same […]
While it’s fairly rare that a major hurricane makes landfall on the US coastline, tropical systems of all sorts can impact the US with or without an official name or […]
While it is a term frequently used when discussing the weather, it is a hard concept to understand. Simply put, the dew point is the temperature at which the water […]