La Niña is a recurring climate pattern that occurs when trade winds that push warm water west from South America toward Asia ...

Flood inundation maps take data from the National Water Model, which includes current and forecasted rainfall amounts, to ...

Here's what meteorologists mean when the weather pattern is zonal versus amplified and how it ties into next week's forecast.

A recent study in the journal Nature shows that when the summer jet stream over Europe veers north or south of its usual path, it brings weather extremes that can exacerbate epidemics, ruin crop ...

The jet stream is switching to what's called amplified flow, meaning it's stretched out into a wavy north-to-south configuration, as seen below. A mplified weather patterns tend to be stormier ...