Howard is the reason we have cumulus (meaning "heap"), stratus ("layer"), cirrus ("curl") and many other cloud names. His ...

A marine layer is a cool, dense layer of air over the ocean that often brings coastal fog, low clouds and cooler temperatures ...

Anthocyanins are the pigments that paint fall leaves red and purple, while also protecting plants and coloring some fruits.

A “fish storm” is a tropical system that stays out to sea but can still impact land by generating large swells, rip currents and hazardous surf along distant coastlines.

Mammatus clouds are some of the most visually striking and unusual cloud formations in the sky. They appear as rounded, pouchlike lobes that hang down from the base of a cloud, usually under ...

When rain refuses to fall for weeks on end, a dry spell can gradually become a full-on drought. But what do meteorologists and other scientists look for to confirm it’s actually a drought? The ...

Across the country, colorful regional slang captures the many ways rain can fall. A look at how weather words evolve and the ...

The sun heats the Earth’s surface with solar radiation, and how quickly it heats everything up depends on the color of the surfaces being heated. Albedo is the term that describes the fraction of ...

Meteorologist Zack Webster investigates just how dry the past two years have been by tallying the months that saw both above and below-normal rainfall.