Heat index values will top 110 degrees in parts of the country Wednesday, while South Texas could see its highest ...

Central Texas finds itself between two weather systems, an upper-level low over West Texas and a high-pressure ridge in the ...

San Antonio on Tuesday is shaping up to be cloudy in the morning before turning mostly sunny. Temperatures could soar to as ...

This story was originally published by Grist with the headline The science behind the heat dome — ‘a mosh pit’ of molecules ...

Pressure on Earth A version of this article first appeared on NOVA's Web site Everest. Put Mt. Everest (28 deg North) at the latitude of Mt. McKinley (63 deg North) in the United States and it is ...

While most of Texas will stay dry over the next several days, far East Texas will have a chance of significant tropical ...

The East Coast, for instance, is facing extreme heat because of a heat dome created by high atmospheric pressure covering the eastern half of the United States. More than 70 locations, ...

To understand what a heat dome is, some basic concepts in meteorology, such as atmospheric pressure, are important to know. As the Earth spins and the sun warms the planet, eddies of dense air ...

Over the past three weeks, the atmospheric weather pattern over Texas has been characterized by constant low pressure systems, high atmospheric instability and frequent storms. In fact, National ...

In 1956 Boerema 5 revived medical interest in the use of oxygen at pressures greater than atmospheric (hyperbaric high oxygen pressure, or HOP), and Hutchison et al. 6 recently stated that "in the ...