Weather is notoriously unpredictable. But there are many kinds of prediction, and it is possible to make scientific predictions about weather without predicting the weather. A case in point is the ...

In 2017 I wrote about Klara Dan von Neumann, a "hidden figure" of history that played a significant role in pioneering modern weather prediction. Her story, like so many others, is tucked away in ...

Many people know about Moore’s Law, which predicts how quickly computing capability increases over time. But did you know that a similar, if little known, axiom applies to the science of meteorology?

Science historian James Fleming focuses on three: Norwegian Vilhelm Bjerknes, Swede Carl-Gustaf Rossby and American Harry Wexler. The first two I expected; the third I was intrigued to learn more ...

Although urban weather is driven by large synoptic and meso-scale features, weather events unique to the urban environment arise from the characteristics of the typical urban setting. “Urban ...

Science is an essential part of a liberal-arts education. At nearly every college and university, students can study the pure sciences of physics, chemistry, and biology, and usually one applied ...

Events in the stratosphere are making long-range weather in Northern Europe easier to forecast, researchers have discovered. Events in the stratosphere are making long-range weather in Northern Europe ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apr. 24—STARKVILLE — Melissa Meeder, a second-year graduate student in Mississippi State University's meteorology program, stood ...

Ever since the Wright Brothers called up the weather bureau to find the right place to launch the world’s first plane ride in 1903, pilots and meteorologists have been in a symbiotic relationship.

Society urgently needs experts with a multidisciplinary education in Atmospheric and Earth and Climate-System sciences. Climate change, urban air quality and extreme weather are matters of global ...

The general public's one and only exposure to meteorology is the people they see doing the weather on television. Often that is not the best representation of the profession. Vince Condella sets us ...