Natural disasters like heat waves, fires, and floods are growing more dangerous because of climate change, but the effect a ...

He then embarked on years of tornado climatology research in the 1970s and 1980s for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the National Science Foundation, a task that laid what proved to be ...

The Trump administration is targeting top climate and weather labs for cuts. Insiders worry about the impact on research and ...

After a wind burst from a thunderstorm changed the direction of the 2013 Yarnell Hill fire and killed 19 wildland ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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

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 ...

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 thunderstorms in ...

Meteorologists study these elements to predict tornado behavior, but the twin vortex phenomenon remains an elusive subject of research. The merging of tornadoes presents unique challenges for ...

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

Researchers pinpointed the riskiest events in terms of lightning and tornado exposure by mining data from more than 16,000 ...