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

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 ...

Winds always rotate in a counterclockwise sense around hurricanes in the Northern Hemisphere. Winds in tornadoes usually rotate counterclockwise, but in perhaps five percent of tornadoes, clockwise ...

Hurricane forecasts have some caveats that might not appear on a graphic, including the meaning of a storm's winds, landfall ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), often compared to a gigantic conveyor belt in the ocean, plays an essential role in regulating the climate, especially in Europe. Recent studies ...

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 ...