WEATHER

It’s more complicated than any one cause, but there are at least three major factors at play.

CalTech physicist Ken Libbrecht has elevated snowflake science to an art.

The U.S. is the most active tornado zone in the world.

Weather radar is an incredible piece of technology, and knowing how to interpret the colors on the map can keep you safe as we enter severe weather season.

Scientists used detailed human studies to figure out how a cold wind affects your body’s ability to retain heat.

Scientists compared rainfall data with lunar position and found a distinct pattern.

It seems like a silly controversy, but there are some pretty strong arguments both for and against assigning names to winter storms.

A bit of physics and biology are to blame.

“The dead of winter” indeed.

Nearly half a million handwritten pages from whaling logs are waiting to be analyzed.

The combination of thick clouds, steady rain, Seattle’s high latitude, and the sun’s low angle created the seriously gloomy conditions.

It’s easy to forget that there was a time in the not-too-distant past when we only had one or two ways to check the weather forecast. Today, we have the opposite problem—there are now so many sources of weather information that it’s hard to pick just one.