A new type of lidar is allowing physicists to study cloud tops at a resolution 100 to 1,000 times higher than before.

Earth is taking in more energy than it releases back to space—a growing "energy imbalance" that is fueling global warming. A ...

Heavy rain from a persistent atmospheric river pattern continues to impact California this week. Here's what's causing it.

Airplanes form invisible ice clouds that trap heat. Study explains why contrails matter and how aviation warming has been ...

Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborators have developed a new type of lidar—a laser-based remote-sensing ...

Wednesday Night: Low clouds and fog will build back in over the eastern half, if not two-thirds of the area later in the ...

As brutally cold conditions gripped the Chicago area this past weekend, a rather peculiar phenomenon surfaced along Lake ...

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Weather forecasting can often seem as arcane as gazing into a crystal ball, but the skill lies in analyzing current conditions, identifying weather patterns and applying climatology to produce a ...

In plays, poems, songs, and novels, clouds stand in for everything from bad philosophy to the many incarnations of a soul Ah, the cloud. It sounds dreamlike, ethereal. But of course, when we talk ...

Translated to the ground, that means we will see lots of clouds, with periods of drizzle or even fog possible beginning ...

Monday will start cloudy with gradual clearing expected and winds between 5 to 10 mph. The high temperature will range in the ...