Understanding how storms form helps explain why forecasters watch ocean temperatures and wind patterns so closely.
Hurricanes may be old hat in Florida, but they’re not a disaster that nature often inflicts on Southern California. The last one to damage the region was in 1858, when a tropical cyclone with 75 mph ...
Zachary Handlos receives funding from the National Science Foundation. He is affiliated with the American Meteorological Society. I teach meteorology at Georgia Tech, in a part of the country that ...