Hurricanes in the Northern Hemisphere always rotate in a counterclockwise direction. Tornadoes usually rotate in a counterclockwise sense – usually, but not always. Hurricanes are low pressure systems ...

Tropical Storm Jerry continues to look like a storm that just can’t catch a break. Despite being upgraded slightly in ...

Weather forecasters talk about wind shear a lot during hurricane season, but what exactly is it? I teach meteorology at Georgia Tech, in a part of the country that pays close attention to the Atlantic ...

Hurricanes are intense low pressure systems with a counterclockwise wind circulation in the Northern Hemisphere. Hurricane forecasters define quadrants of the storm with respect to the direction the ...

Hurricane season can get pretty confusing when it comes to terminology - we get it. There are a lot of terms that sound similar, but their distinctions are crucial throughout the life cycle of a ...

By Sean Mowbray Climate change is disturbing wind patterns across the globe in dramatic ways. And when combined with land-use ...

A new article documents the global wind patterns on any planet for the first time. Remote repogramming of the MAVEN spacecraft and its NGIMS instrument enabled the data collection. The results reveal ...

One of the most notable properties of the giant planets in our solar system—Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune—are the ...