Severe weather is typically associated with negatively tilted troughs. When you’re underneath a troughing pattern, temperatures usually decrease. Meanwhile, if you’re under a ridging pattern ...

When meteorologists are keeping an eye on the sky, their radars can detect many different things. Meteorologist Derek Witt explains this awesome capability in this "Weather Word of the Week." ...

Dr. Steve covers topics like the water cycle, fronts, lightning, severe weather safety, and more. He even has some fun weather-related word search and word scramble games for kids. (See links for ...

It is important to remember that these risk levels are general categorizations and do not mean more severe weather can't take place. Now you know the low down on this Wednesday's Weather Word ...

The four-letter word for Tuesday morning was rain. But by Thursday afternoon, it could be snow -- an inch or two of it. Snow could come with a three-letter word -- ice -- and a five-letter word ...

WASHINGTON — Teachers and parents, here's a fun way to enhance your weather lessons with young learners: coloring pages, word searches and more ways to make meteorology interactive. The WUSA9 ...

Smog: Visible air pollution in urban areas. The word was coined in 1905 by Harold Des Veaux, a London physician, to describe natural fog contaminated by smoke. Today it is a synonym for any kind ...

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - This morning I, unintentionally, created a new word. I was about to talk about a couple of warmer, but also windier, days ahead. Before I had a chance to stop myself, I said ...

Gutter: A channel for draining off water, as at the edge of a street or under the border of a roof; also, a groove formed by running water. ———- Tom Skilling is chief meteorologist at WGN-TV.