If you've ever been in a coastal area, you may have experienced a marine layer. A marine layer is a dense, cool layer of air trapped near the ocean’s surface beneath a warmer layer of air above. It ...

When a hurricane threatens land, one of the most familiar images you’ll see on weather maps is the “cone of uncertainty.” This cone shows the probable path of the storm’s center based on forecast ...

While rivers on the ground carry large amounts of water downstream, rivers in the atmosphere can do the same thing, only high above Earth’s surface. An atmospheric river (AR) is a long plume of ...

A landslide is a sudden and powerful movement of rock, soil, and debris down a slope. They happen when the forces pulling materials downhill—mainly gravity—overcome the strength holding them in place.

When you look at the atmosphere over a long period of time, it appears to move like a fluid. And just like a fluid, the atmosphere often moves in waves. When meteorologists are working to determine if ...

A yowe-tremmle—literally an “ewe-tremble”—is an old Scottish dialect word for a week of unusually cold or rainy weather beginning in the final few days in June that is literally cold enough to make ...