Severe convective storms and tornadoes rank among nature’s most hazardous phenomena, inflicting significant property damage and casualties. Near-surface weather conditions are closely governed by ...

Led by Rice statistics doctoral student Tyler Bagwell, with climate scientist Sylvia Dee and statistician Frederi Viens, the study uses high-resolution data and empirical modeling to examine how large ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hurricane forecasters are carefully watching ocean temperatures in the Pacific Ocean for changes that signal El Niño or La Niña, ...

Researchers have uncovered a key mechanism behind Japan's extreme winter weather, revealing how distant climate patterns interact to intensify cold waves and heavy snowfall. Extreme weather ...

Changes in the Atlantic Ocean's mixed layer are the primary force behind the Atlantic Multidecadal Variability (AMV). The churning of the upper ocean in the tropics of Atlantic Ocean plays a crucial ...

After months of hearing about the possibility of the world entering a La Niña climate pattern, NOAA's Climate Prediction Center (CPC) announced Thursday that water temperatures in critical parts of ...

Early signs of a possible La Niña fall and winter are emerging in some climate models, federal forecasters announced July 10. La Niña is a part of a natural climate cycle officially known as El Niño – ...

The trade winds are permanent east-to-west prevailing winds that flow in Earth's equatorial region, blowing mainly from the northeast in the Northern Hemisphere and from the southeast in the Southern ...

This Pew Research Center report looks at Americans’ views of climate change, the environment and related topics. Why did we do this? Pew Research Center does research to help the public, media and ...

Hurricane forecasters are carefully watching ocean temperatures in the Pacific Ocean for changes that signal El Niño or La Niña, major global climate patterns that affect hurricane season outlooks. On ...