Hail is considered to be severe when the hailstones are an inch in diameter or the size of a quarter. Usually, the largest ...

United States stocks closed with major gains on Wednesday after President Donald Trump announced a 90-day pause on some ...

Atmospheric instability has two components: rising air and wind shear, which is created as wind speed changes with height.

Broad, interconnected thematic programming drives the BSO's just announced 2025-2026 season, including "E Pluribus Unum," a ...

Summer is on its way, meaning thunderstorms are too. According to WDAY’s John Wheeler, thunderstorms are attributed with giving us over half the rainfall we get over the entire year, while also ...

Northern Australia has its ... thunderstorms in the tropics – pulse storms and squall lines. Both can lead to severe weather. A pulse storm is another name for a single thunderstorm with a brief ...

There is no absolute relationship between these events and visible thunderstorm features, but a few pointers are relevant. Hailstones are fascinating ice sculptures which form in the strong ...

Scientists at the University of Miami's Alfred C. Glassell Jr. SUrge‐STructure‐Atmosphere INteraction (SUSTAIN) laboratory ...

Astronomers and astrophysics say we know a lot about stars. We can even make predictions about what stars used to look like and what they'll look like in the future. How is that possible if they live ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- We ended the week the way it started, with sometimes-heavy rain throughout the day and evening on Friday. Rounds of rain moved through central North Carolina from the ...

Pretoria residents are warned that severe thunderstorms are expected today. According to Tshwane Emergency Department spokesperson Lindsay Zwelithini Mnguni, the warning is in place for Wednesday.