Meteorology

This week a dust storm so ridiculously huge that it was visible from space tore through Colorado. The National…

On local TV stations around the country, an increasing number of weathercasters have been covering the consequences…

A dust cloud began to drift across the Atlantic last week. It’s a development that could stall the formation of…

Top officials at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration violated the agency’s scientific integrity…

Two years ago, a severe storm in Argentina produced hailstones reaching 9 inches wide, prompting meteorologists to…

A collaboration between physicists and citizen scientists has led to the discovery of a previously unknown form of…

A spectacular cirrus arc, which stretched from Nebraska to northern Minnesota and Canada, foreshadowed the recent…

Sprawling towers of dust can reach heights of 50 miles during global-scale dust storms on Mars, according to new…

Using satellites and ground stations, scientists have documented an epic lightning flash from 2017 that zipped above…

Superbolts, the strongest lightning bolts, occur at surprising times and in surprising places, a new study has found.

Is the 2004 Ashton Kutcher vehicle The Butterfly Effect a good movie? Definitely not, no—but try telling that to me…

Tropical Depression Barry has been downgraded to its current status after smashing into Louisiana as the first…

Downtown Davenport, Iowa flooded after HESCO barriers in the region failed sometime around 3:30 p.m. local time as…

Historic flooding has followed in the wake of the “bomb cyclone” that rammed into the central U.S. this week, with US…

The massive, dangerous bomb cyclone that barreled into the central United States this week hit as hard as its name…

Violent storms across swathes of the Southeast have caused several deaths and caused major flooding this weekend,…

Instruments aboard NASA’s InSight lander are now gathering meteorological data from the Martian surface, allowing…

Officials in Tokyo are testing a new technology that utilizes weather radar and terrestrial digital radio waves to…

This week in the city of Westbrook, Maine, a huge, rotating circle of ice formed on the Presumpscot River. While it…

This week, the European Space Agency released a curious photo captured by the Mars Express orbiter of a…