Imagine a HUGE wall of dust as high as 5000 feet tall coming at you that looks like something out of a sci-fi movie! Visibility can drop to zero in a matter of seconds, making a haboob a big danger.

Weather Words: TrainingTraining storms are sometimes hard to predict. Meteorologists won’t always know where training storms are going to set up until a storm system is already unfolding. In ...

Weather Words: AnvilWhen a cloud is maturing, or growing vertically, there comes a point when the air can no longer rise, therefore the cloud begins to spread downwind, horizontally. Anvil tops ...

We have heard about snow drifts in weather words before, but a pillow drift has a different twist. Pillow drifts specifically describe snow drifts that are still soft and fluffy, like a pillow.

Severe Weather News & Blogs Mobile Apps Popular Cities San Francisco, CA 53 °F Partly Cloudy Manhattan, NY warning53 °F Fair Schiller Park, IL (60176) warning38 °F Light Rain Boston, MA ...

Troughs can be at the surface, at a high altitude, or somewhere in between. Troughs are typically associated with some kind of unsettled weather, be it rain, storms, or snow.

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - Welcome to this second edition of “Weather Word of the Week.” I’m Meteorologist Derek Witt, and the term we’re discussing today is “Radiational Cooling.” ...

QUAD CITIES, Iowa/Ill. (KWQC) - One of the newer weather alerts issued by the National Weather Service during the winter season is a Snow Squall Warning. According to the NOAA glossary, a snow ...

QUAD CITIES, Iowa/Ill. (KWQC) - This week we open up the weather glossary to the word advection, and it’s actually something we experience often. The definition from NOAA is “the horizontal ...