While the world's most advanced climate models successfully reproduce heat waves once they are underway, they consistently ...

Flickr Few weather events have reshaped the American summer quite like the heat dome. Once a term reserved mostly for ...

Europe is struggling more and more with extreme heat in the summer. While climate change is the main reason for this increase, what specific physical mechanisms cause a heat wave? One important driver ...

Along the U.S. West Coast during El Niño, surface winds that normally blow from the north tend to subside. This weakens ...

Something unusual and with far-reaching consequences is lurking in the sea off the California coast, stretching all the way down the Baja Peninsula and more than 500 miles to the southwest. In this ...

With an El Nino expected to strengthen through the summer and fall, water temperatures will heat up even more. It's time to ...

A widespread heat wave is pushing dangerously high temperatures across large parts of the United States this week.