Weather

It’s not just the soaring temperatures of day that make heat waves dangerous. High nighttime temperatures add to the stress on human bodies

The temperature in Death Valley could rise above 130 degrees Fahrenheit this weekend. If it does, it would set a record for the hottest temperature ever reliably measured on Earth

Artificial intelligence taps historical weather data in forecasting, but the changing climate is complicating such efforts

A new supercomputer is helping climate scientists determine whether injecting human-made, sun-blocking aerosols into the stratosphere would also alter thunderstorms and rainfall

Early warning about impending weather disasters is almost impossible across large, low-income regions of the world

Scientists are beginning to understand what kind of thunderstorm produces so-called megaflashes of lightning that stretch more than 60 miles

The famous climate pattern El Niño could usher in a new hottest year on record and will have domino effects on the world’s weather.

Extreme rainfall is increasing in the Northern Hemisphere’s mountain ranges as global temperatures rise, raising the dangers of floods and landslides

Heat Wave Yago is baking Seville, Spain, the first city in the world to introduce a heat wave naming and ranking system

A “heat dome” is parked over Texas and Mexico and is sending temperatures soaring to record—and potentially deadly—levels

Record ocean temperatures in the Atlantic are causing storms to form much farther east than usual

The January 2022 eruption of the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai volcano generated a thunderstorm with more than 192,000 lightning flashes, including 2,600 flashes per minute at its peak