Rapid changes from wet to dry weather can create severe natural disasters. And these precipitation whiplash events are ...

A new study challenges the idea that climate change is behind the erratic wintertime behavior of the polar jet stream, the ...

The Founding Fathers who gathered in Philadelphia to adopt the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 picked a nice day ...

In the atmospheric layer above it, about 10 to 30 miles up, is the stratospheric polar vortex, where every winter a sunlight-starved Arctic spins up a mass of cold air that, ultimately, dissipates ...

Climate scientist Michael Mann explains the complex connections between climate change, atmospheric waves, and extreme ...

As we sweat away the summer, imagine walking out of 98-degree heat and into a 72-degree, climate-controlled ballpark to watch ...

Have you looked outside lately and thought, “Something just feels off”? Maybe it’s the weirdly warm winter, or the wildfire ...

Unless society stops pumping more greenhouse gases in the air, “we can expect multiple factors to worsen summer extremes,” a ...

From last winter’s polar vortex to this week’s heat wave, Chicagoans have experienced several degrees of uncomfortableness in a few short months. We weather the extreme weather well enough, thanks to ...