Storms

World Weather Attribution said Oct. 15, 2026, that human-caused warming made the ocean and air conditions capable of fueling a storm like Hurricane Polo about 23 times likelier than they would have…

The Delta Flume at Deltares in Delft is a concrete canal 300 meters long, and in February and March 2024 a Dutch team filled it with a salt marsh: blocks of turf cut from the Frisian coast, laid out…

The trade winds over the tropical Pacific normally push west, piling warm water up near Indonesia. For ten days in November 2023, a patch of them turned around and blew hard toward the east. A…

An atmospheric river is a corridor of water vapor sliding through the air toward a coast, and it behaves less like a storm than like plumbing. The water is going somewhere. What decides where it…

Warming is projected to divert atmospheric rivers, bands of airborne water vapor, away from lower latitudes and toward densely populated parts of Asia, according to a multi-model study published…

The busiest day of the Atlantic hurricane season, by the long-run average, is September 10. That day came and went with no hurricane anywhere in the basin, and so did the day after it. When September…

A seasonal climate forecast is not one prediction. It is a crowd of them: the same model run many times over, each copy nudged from a slightly different starting point, each drifting into its own…

Tropical cyclones that cross oceans where the sea surface temperature varies little from kilometer to kilometer reach about 40% higher intensity than storms crossing water with sharp temperature…

A thunderclap does two things at once. It rolls across the sky, and it pushes down. Part of that acoustic energy hits the ground and keeps going, converting into seismic waves that ripple through the…

Intense storms crossing the edge of the world's sea ice push the ice's yearly growth and melt further in both directions, and on balance they raise the global annual mean sea-ice area by 13%, Claire…

A hailstone measured 16 centimetres across when it fell over northern Italy in 2023, roughly the width of a dinner plate. Eight years earlier, an F4 tornado tore through Mira and Dolo near Venice, at…

Haiyan is over. It came ashore in the Philippines in November 2013, and what it did there is a matter of record. But a storm that has finished happening can be made to happen again, which is the…