Jet streams play a key role in how tornadoes are formed. When it comes to tornadoes, you’ve seen them, and you’ve seen what they can do. But do you really know how a tornado forms into that monstrous ...

Although it may not seem like it, space has its own weather. It doesn’t consist of rain, hurricanes, or snow, but it does have wind, and lots of it. We call the phenomenon solar wind, and it’s nothing ...

PORTLAND (WGME) -- The last couple of days have been very windy across the state of Maine, but you may be asking yourself, "What exactly causes wind?" In simple terms, wind forms due to the ...

Zachary Handlos receives funding from the National Science Foundation. He is affiliated with the American Meteorological Society. I teach meteorology at Georgia Tech, in a part of the country that ...