As recent fervor for storm chasing and the national pastime of doubting meteorological predictions demonstrates, weather can be a tricky beast to pin down. To truly wrangle it and capture its data, ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — When you're watching your favorite on-air meteorologist talking about the heat, they usually show you a graphic of the air temperatures and/or the heat index value. Those are pretty ...

Buildings, roads and other infrastructure absorb and re-emit the sun’s heat more than natural landscapes. Urban areas, where these structures are highly concentrated and greenery is limited, become ...

Devices used to measure the wet-bulb temperature include a dry-bulb thermometer, wet-bulb thermometer and globe thermometer. The National Weather Service recommends the wet-bulb temperature for anyone ...

Austin temperatures on Thursday are expected to hit 101 degrees, while the muggy air will make it feel more like 104. We’ve all heard the saying, “It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity,” to describe ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Summer break may be over for Omaha students and athletes, but the summer heat is still here with highs in the 90s the past few days. Understanding the impacts of heat can be ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that more than 1,300 people die in the US per year due to extreme heat. California officials have proposed legislation that would name and rank heat ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In the late 1970s, a physicist and textiles engineer in Texas named Robert Steadman ...

Another wave of heavy rain smacks western Washington this week, coupled with strong winds adding concern for potential power outages. by Scott Sistek | KOMONews.com Meteorologist SEATTLE -- Seattle is ...