The foehn effect is a weather phenomenon in which one side of high ground – most often something like a mountain, which we’ll ...

Finney took CBS News to a silo where his team assembled dry logs and lit them on fire to simulate wind-fueled flames on the forest floor. What they're learning in the lab has never been more ...

Firefighters in New York have knocked down a dwindling brush fire in a wooded stretch of Long Island but officials say high ...

Heavy wind can impact travel safety, reduce air quality, cause property damage and exacerbate the risk of wildfire.

Firefighters on New York's Long Island gained control of a wind-driven brush fire in the Pine Barrens on Sunday, about a day after Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency and said ...

The threat of wildfires has increased due to a prolonged period without rainfall. Wind gusts of 20-25 mph, relative humidity as low as 25%, and unseasonably warm temperatures have also increased ...

More than 400 homes and structures have been destroyed and at least 170,000 acres burned in the state in the wake of the wind-whipped wildfires, prompting evacuations amid extreme fire weather ...

California fire safety officials have repeatedly warned Southern California Edison to improve weather tracking to help prevent wind-driven fire, but the utility maintained before the Eaton Fire ...