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The Space Weather Prediction Center can give a heads-up of about 45 minutes that a solar storm will affect some specific place on Earth.

Forget everything you thought you knew about "heat lightning."

Hurricane Earl (top) and Hurricane Fiona (bottom) pummel the U.S. coast and Caribbean islands.

Here's how Atlantic hurricanes form along a path that stretches from the Cape Verde Islands to the Caribbean.

Zapping across the sky in 2007, the 200-mile flash over Oklahoma could be seen from Colorado.

It can be confusing to talk about these storms from one region to the next, but it’s really not as daunting as it sounds once you get used it.

It was the strongest storm on Earth in 2016.

Here are 15 sunny places that are, surprisingly, no stranger to the white stuff.

On November 1, 1755, an earthquake released the energy equivalent of 32,000 Hiroshima atomic bombs, with Lisbon suffering the worst of it. Then the tsunami hit...

Predicting the future inherently involves some level of uncertainty, and some situations are more uncertain than others. Hurricanes are no different.

Tropical Storm Hermine over the Gulf of Mexico on September 1, 2016. Image: NOAA/NASA

The National Hurricane Center expects Hermine to make landfall as a category 1 hurricane.

Each could affect the island chain with dangerous wind, waves, and flooding.

You weren’t Dave Schwartz’s audience. You were his friend.

It may look like pasta thrown at a map, but it's actually the result of one meteorological model being run dozens of times with varying initial conditions.

Firefighters spent two hours extinguishing the blaze after townspeople complained about the smell.

Typhoon Nepartak swirling over the Pacific Ocean on July 6, 2016

A “typhoon” and a “hurricane” are the same kind of storm, they just go by different names.

It's being called a "heat dome."

From virtually flooding the studio to zapping lightning strikes, the tech brings the elements indoors.

That's just the actual air temperature.

Not all thunderstorm winds are created equal, and it’s important to know the difference between the types of winds a severe torrent can throw your way.

2. The models can screw up.

Over the past few weeks, several countries have measured the hottest temperatures they’ve ever recorded.

There’s much more to clouds than meets the eye.

Artificial mountains are possible. Controlling the weather … well, that’s a little harder.

Climate change may seem like a fairly recent topic for scientific investigation, but a new study provides more evidence that it isn't.

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There's No Such Thing as 'the Temperature in the Shade'

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Record-Breaking Heat Sears Southern Asia

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