When a hurricane's steering winds collapse, the storm can sit in place for days, turning a wind event into a flood catastrophe. Here's why it happens.

Most people assume the white cone on a hurricane graphic shows where the damage will land. It doesn't, and that mix-up has already cost lives.

The number the National Hurricane Center assigns a storm measures wind, and only wind. History's deadliest hurricanes prove that isn't the same as knowing how dangerous one will be.

A single lightning bolt can sound like a sharp crack in one spot and a rolling rumble a few miles away, and the split comes down to how far its miles-long channel is from your ear.

A flash drought can turn a healthy field into a stressed one within days, driven by heat and wind rather than a lack of rain. Farmers and forecasters are racing to catch up.

Your compass isn't pointing at the North Pole. It's pointing at a wandering magnetic point currently 1,200 miles away and drifting toward Siberia.

NOAA gives the 2026 Atlantic season a 55% chance of running below normal, largely because of a strengthening El Nino. The forecast comes with an explicit caveat: it only takes one storm.

A heat dome is the stalled high-pressure lid behind record-breaking heat waves. Here is how it forms, why humidity makes it deadly, and how long it lasts.

NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center has issued a G2 geomagnetic storm watch for July 3 after the sun’s biggest flare of the week triggered radio blackouts across North America.

The Pacific has flipped into its warm phase, and the agency’s new measuring stick says this one could be big. Here is what an El Niño winter usually brings.