Lakeshore flooding happens when strong winds and waves push water toward the shoreline, causing rapid rises in water levels ...

Freezing spray occurs when wind-driven water droplets from a lake or ocean freeze on contact, rapidly coating shorelines, ...

Wind gusts are brief bursts of stronger wind caused by atmospheric turbulence and mixing, and they’re often mistaken for ...

Beyond more common weather terms lies a field of rarely used but humorous monikers to describe the weather around us. Some were just invented, some have been around for hundreds of years. Here are a ...

Sloughing is the slow, gradual shedding of soil, rock, snow or ice from a surface, often driven by gravity and weather over ...

Are you a fall person or an autumn person? When the leaves start to turn and the air gets crisp, you might hear both “fall” and “autumn” used to describe the season, but which one is correct? They can ...

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 ...

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Welcome to this first edition of “Weather Word of the Week.” In this weekly segment, Meteorologist Derek Witt will explain the more technical terms of atmospheric science, and how they influence our ...

Jenny Offill talks to Mary Laura Philpott about WEATHER. “Hope cannot exist in and of itself. I can't just be hopeful for the sake of it. I find that I have to figure out actions that feel like they ...