On Thursday, the risk begins over the High Plains, extending east toward Oklahoma and north Texas overnight. By Friday, a ...

The Amazon rainforest is one of the world's greatest natural resources, both in terms of the resources it contains and its role in producing oxygen and cleaning the world's air. The forest stores up ...

With extreme weather becoming more common due to the climate crisis, the past few years have seen some of the most ...

A WPSD Local 6 Weather Authority Alert is in effect Wednesday for the potential of severe thunderstorms moving through the television station's viewing area.

While Florida is the lightning capital of the U.S., the freezing level is so high in the atmosphere that hail usually melts before it reaches the ground. Conversely, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming ...

Atmospheric rivers are long, narrow regions of water vapor in the atmosphere, like a river in the sky. These systems gather ...

Antarctica could see a doubling of extreme weather events—such as atmospheric rivers—by 2100, with implications for future sea level rise.

KETCHIKAN, Alaska – Those heading up to Alaska for a late spring cruise this week got a heaping dose of weather reality as an atmospheric river brings several inches of rain to one of the most ...

Atmospheric rivers are responsible for most flooding on the West Coast of the U.S., but also bring much needed moisture to ...

Year-to-year variations in atmospheric river frequency already create significant fluctuations in Antarctica’s contribution to sea level rise. This study highlights that severe weather events in ...

Atmospheric river impacts. Credit: Nature Reviews Earth & Environment (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s43017-024-00638-7 A study co-led by Irina Gorodetskaya, a researcher at the Interdisciplinary ...

Taylor Jenkins Reid returns with space love story "Atmosphere." She talks her publishing hiatus and how learning from NASA experts changed her.