The latest guidance from the Climate Prediction Center gives a 63% chance of a very strong El Niño, or sometimes called a ...

Weather is never random. Every unusual storm, every record-breaking heat wave, every flood that seems to come out of nowhere is part of a much larger story our atmosphere is trying to tell. In recent ...

A research team led by University of Tsukuba has revealed that the severity of Japanese winters is strongly influenced by the ...

An unusually extended Pacific jet stream could bring larger swings between cool and warm weather to California in the coming ...

Climate scientists have long watched the jet stream with fascination and growing concern. These rivers of air racing across our planet at altitudes of roughly 5-9 miles dictate much of our day-to-day ...

Temperature is the ultimate driver of global weather patterns, with tropical heating causing air to rise until capped by the warm, ozone-rich stratosphere, forcing horizontal spreading. Global ...