Across much of the northern hemisphere, extreme weather events like heat waves and heavy precipitation have increased in ...

Findings has critical implications for predicting extreme weather events such as hurricanes and heavy rainfall. In a groundbreaking meteorological study, an international team of researchers from the ...

It may only be Tuesday, but we can already say this week is pretty slow and sluggish (at least as far as the weather forecast is concerned). You can thank two rounds of a weather pattern known as a ...

The team’s analysis revealed that roughly 32% of the ENSO years analyzed were what they termed “heretical,” meaning they went against the canonical patterns of precipitation expected from El Niño and ...

Roughly twenty miles above Earth's surface, in a largely invisible layer of the atmosphere called the stratosphere, some of the most dramatic temperature changes on our planet unfold. Major sudden ...

Volcanoes are both captivating and disastrous. Most are likely familiar with the common short-term dangers associated with them: explosive forces, lava, and even atmospheric particles disrupting air ...

Earthquakes create ripple effects in Earth's upper atmosphere that can disrupt satellite communications and navigation systems we rely on. Nagoya University scientists and their collaborators have ...

Atmospheric blocking refers to persistent high-pressure systems that disrupt the typical west-to-east progression of mid-latitude westerly winds. These quasi-stationary anticyclones alter large-scale ...

Satellite imagery from September 28, 2021, showing enhanced cloudiness and thunderstorm activity off the coast of Africa. This increased thunderstorm activity was intensified by an atmospheric Kelvin ...