A snownado is the snow equivalent of a tornado and can be used to describe snow-devils, snow waterspouts, snow landspouts and ...

Cross-polar flow is a phenomenon that describes the movement of air over the North Pole. For U.S. context, this generally ...

Astronomical fall is based on the position of the Earth in relation to the sun. It begins with the autumnal equinox, usually ...

Tule fog is a type of fog that can blanket California's Central Valley for days at a time, greatly reducing visibility.

Welcome to this first edition of “Weather Word of the Week.” In this weekly segment, Meteorologist Derek Witt will explain the more technical terms of atmospheric science, and how they influence our ...

When you look at the atmosphere over a long period of time, it appears to move like a fluid. And just like a fluid, the atmosphere often moves in waves. When meteorologists are working to determine if ...

This segment originally appeared in today's edition of the Morning Brief newsletter. Sign up here to get weekday updates from The Weather Channel and our meteorologists. When you hear the word ...

Beyond more common weather terms lies a field of rarely used but humorous monikers to describe the weather around us. Some were just invented, some have been around for hundreds of years. Here are a ...