Every year, weather enthusiasts eagerly watch and wait for signs that the polar vortex, a mass of cold air spinning around the Arctic, might meander south, sending cold and snow into the lower ...

Charlottesville and much of central Virginia were under an extreme heat warning Tuesday, with temperatures predicted to stay ...

A new study challenges the idea that climate change is behind the erratic wintertime behavior of the polar jet stream, the ...

Hurricane forecasters and scientists rely on weather data collected and processed by Department of Defense satellites. The ...

Live updates from the launch of the EUMETSAT MTG-S1 weather satellite for ESA. Liftoff occurred at 5:04 p.m. July 1 from ...

A massive heatwave has set record temperatures over the East Coast and parts of the Midwest, with Kansas hotter than the ...

Microwave satellite data are key to capturing major changes in a hurricane’s strength, such as when a storm undergoes rapid ...

SC7 participants rafting a stretch of the famous Chattooga River during a previous year's expedition. The state’s Department ...