Natural disasters like heat waves, fires, and floods are growing more dangerous because of climate change, but the effect a warming world has on tornadoes is complicated and incon ...

More than 100 tornadoes, hail the size of baseballs and hurricane-strength wind gusts unfolded during a wide-reaching ...

The unexpected behavior of the backward tornado highlights the need for continued research and innovation in meteorology. Understanding such anomalies could improve forecasting models and lead to ...

A budget proposal for NOAA paints a potentially harrowing picture just two months out from the start of hurricane season.

“For a lot of our questions about climate change and tornadoes, the answer is, we don’t know,” said Harold Brooks, a senior research scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

But predicting exactly which thunderstorms will produce a tornado and when is harder, and that’s where a lot of severe weather research is focused today. Often, you’ll have a line of ...

“The big takeaway (from our research) is, if you look at the historical tornado occurrences, there is a trend that tornado outbreaks are getting larger,” Widhalm said. “We’re seeing them w ...

The cuts could cripple US industries — including agriculture — that depend on free, accurate weather and climate data and ...