Let’s go back to middle school science class. The teacher asks you what the three primary ways to transfer energy are called. I’ll give you one of the answers: convection! That’s also one of the main ...

Commonly held beliefs about thunderstorms are often inaccurate; a basic understanding of the convective process is insufficient for safe flight planning. Thunderstorm development depends on ...

Tonight's skew-t/log-p diagram from www.rap.ucar.edu and the Shreveport National Weather Service shows a weakly unstable atmosphere good enough for a few air mass type showers/thundershowers. With the ...

This year is the second year since 1950 without a named Atlantic storm between Aug. 29 and Sept. 16, according to a report from Colorado State University.

Earth's tropical regions drive some of the most powerful weather and climate variability globally. Among these, the ...

New research led by Lia Siegelman, a physical oceanographer at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, shows that the roiling storms at the planet Jupiter's polar regions are powered by ...

Most people like to swallow the bad news first and then wash it down with the good news. The bad news is that most of what you might have learned about thunderstorms is probably worthless-not to ...