Are you a fall person or an autumn person? When the leaves start to turn and the air gets crisp, you might hear both “fall” and “autumn” used to describe the season, but which one is correct? They can ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you’ve ever heard a meteorologist or local say it’s “Chamber of Commerce weather,” they’re not just describing a beautiful day ...

When our weather team says the air is going to bite… sometimes they mean that quite literally. Meteorologist Derek Witt explains in this Weather Word of the Week.

Radar beams quite literally move at the speed of light, and when they bounce off an object in the sky and return to the radar site to be collected and analyzed, we called that an “echo.” For weather ...

Ground clutter may sound more like my son’s messy room than a weather word, but it can be just as frustrating. Not everything that shows up on weather radar is actually weather. Sometimes, what looks ...

Imagine wringing out the entire atmosphere like a sponge; how much water would fall? That’s what precipitable water tells us. Precipitable water (often abbreviated as PWAT) is a measure of how much ...

Chances are you've heard of an avalanche, and if you're a skier, you might even fear them. But do you know what actually causes them and how dangerous they can actually be? An avalanche (sometimes ...

Mammatus clouds are some of the most visually striking and unusual cloud formations in the sky. They appear as rounded, pouchlike lobes that hang down from the base of a cloud, usually under ...