If you hear a meteorologist, say stormy weather is expected, we didn't just pull it out of thin air. Instead, we looked at weather models predicting the future. Weather forecasting can be difficult ...
We experience beautiful sunrises and sunsets here in Michigan all the time. Cotton candy-colored sunsets are my favorite, and I'm sure you have your favorites too. Have you ever wondered why we see ...
Huge, dense clouds called pyrocumulonimbus clouds can form as a result of wildfires. Much like the cumulonimbus of a thunderstorm, rising warm air from the fire carries water vapor up into the ...
When early broadcasters were looking for things to interest people, weather seemed like a natural – after all everyone talks about it the weather, especially in the Pacific Northwest. But in the early ...
We usually rely on scientists to predict the weather, but sometimes nature can tell us what the weather will do. Science Trek is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on ...
When NASA’s satellite operators need accurate, real-time space-weather information, they turn to the Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC) of the Space Weather Laboratory at NASA’s Goddard ...
Air-mass analysis is the biggest thing in modern weather forecasting. Weather is a three-dimensional phenomenon, so instead of confining itself to surface observations, air-mass analysis gets off the ...
MUNICH, Germany: Four golfers swarm into a little caddy car as they are surprised by a hailstorm during a golf tournament in Munich on 28 June 2005. The storm took ten minutes only, and the sportsmen ...
The National Science Foundation will “break up” a climate and weather research lab in Colorado, according to White House Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought. The Foundation, an ...
NCAR is “truly an international treasure, not just a national treasure,” said Antonio Busalacchi, president of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), which manages NCAR for the ...