Tuesday morning felt impossibly stuffy, the heat index spend the early morning hours in the low 80s as dewpoints pushed into the mid 70s. Well wouldn't you know it, it's worse Wednesday. The heat ...

Researchers have created a dataset of the whole atmosphere, enabling new research to be conducted on previously difficult-to-study regions. Using a new data-assimilation system called JAGUAR-DAS, ...

It’s been an unsettled winter in the atmosphere above Antarctica. About 30 kilometers above the continent’s icy surface, in the layer known as the stratosphere, a series of warming events took place ...

The first-ever three-dimensional observations of the atmosphere of a planet outside our solar system have proven "surprising" in a way that may shake up our understanding of weather. This is the ...

NWS weather balloons expand to the size of a two-car garage before popping high above Idaho! #IdahoWeather #NWS ...

The air around you isn't just empty space waiting to be filled. It's a dynamic, ever-shifting system that dictates whether you wake up to sunshine or storms. Every breath you take connects you to an ...

(WAND) - Earth's atmosphere is divided into several distinct layers, each characterized by specific temperature variations, composition, and phenomena. Below are the primary layers of the atmosphere, ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — We have a whole set of different weather ingredients to measure the atmosphere. Just like going to the medical doctor to check your vital signs, a meteorologist is checking the vital ...

thermal characteristics (temperature changes), chemical composition, movement, and density. Each of the layers are bounded by "pauses" where the greatest changes in thermal characteristics, chemical ...