Most of our weather comes from a force that doesn't actually exist. It just looks that way because we're standing on a rotating, spherical planet. You may have even heard of the coriolis effect before ...
Our weather is largely driven by a force that only exists due to our position on a rotating planet. Here's an experiment you can do with your kids to show the Coriolis effect in action.
The simplest definition of wind is air in motion. Wind is generated by uneven pressure in the atmosphere, which is caused by uneven heating by the Sun, land, and oceans. The air closest to the ground ...
The National Hurricane Center is monitoring Tropical Storm Lorenzo, located in the central Atlantic and well away from land.
Since 1988, this meteorological breakthrough has nearly doubled tornado warning times, giving communities crucial minutes to ...
The Fujiwhara Effect happens when two nearby tropical cyclones begin to interact with each other. Instead of moving independently, their circulations cause them to start orbiting around a common ...
The polar vortex has some company. Another once-obscure weather buzzword — Fujiwhara effect — is gaining steam on social media, thanks to the possibility that Hurricane Humberto may get entangled in ...
THEY GET TOO CLOSE. WELL, THE TROPICS ARE CERTAINLY GETTING QUITE ACTIVE, AND WITH TWO STORMS GETTING CLOSE TO EACH OTHER, POSSIBLY IN THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS, A RARE EVENT MAY BE TOSSED AROUND OVER ...
Popular culture turned the Butterfly Effect into a story of random chance — a wingbeat that changes the world — but ...