Our chances for rain are coming to an end after Wednesday as high atmospheric pressure builds back in across Texas and stymies storm development.

More than 160 million Americans are under the highest level of extreme heat alerts during a wave of above-average ...

Tuesday’s heat came on top of 39 new or tied heat records Monday. But just as dangerous as triple-digit heat is the lack of ...

The Western Pacific Subtropical High (WPSH) functions like Earth's atmospheric traffic controller, directing summer monsoon ...

Those triple-digit air temperatures — with the feels-like index even worse because of humidity — are possible in places where ...

Why is it so warm across southern Australia this autumn? Where’s the rain? ‘Blocking’ high pressure systems are to blame, but the real culprit is climate change.

Scientists have achieved a major milestone in the quest to understand high-temperature superconductivity in hydrogen-rich materials. Using electron tunneling spectroscopy under high pressure, the ...

A large area of high pressure over the south central U.S. is poised to produce significant weather impacts across the west as multiple low pressure systems meander over Colorado.

A National Weather Service satellite image of Texas taken on Aug. 8, 2024 shows hardly any cloud cover over the state, largely because of a heat dome produced by a system of high atmospheric pressure.