Chinook winds are warm, dry downslope winds that can cause temperatures to rise rapidly east of the Rocky Mountains, ...

An avalanche is a sudden, fast-moving slide of snow down a mountain slope, triggered when weather conditions weaken the ...

Pluviophile is a word used to describe a person who enjoys rain and rainy weather, offering a simple way to express a calm ...

What constitutes a “normal” weather day? Turns out there’s a way in which meteorologists calculate that! First Alert ...

Surface temperature is the temperature on the ground level, which often determines when roads freeze, helping explain why icy ...

Behind the scenes, forecasters have many different tools they use to predict the weather. First Alert Meteorologist Derek ...

Freezing spray occurs when wind-driven water droplets from a lake or ocean freeze on contact, rapidly coating shorelines, ...

Swedes are famously not fans of small talk, but if you find yourself forced into small talk with a Swede then the weather is ...

Sloughing refers to the gradual shedding or peeling away of material from a surface, often driven by saturation of heavy rain or melting snow. It’s commonly used to describe small-scale ground ...

WE are SO back — frozen pitches, coin tosses, wasted journeys and broken Walsh Cup dreams. Kilkenny’s war of words with ...

Frost flowers are some of the most beautiful winter phenomena that occur when conditions are just right for them to bloom. Leslie Ratliff took these photos over her Thanksgiving holiday in Ridgetop, ...