It was only a generation or two ago that weather forecasts were not to be taken too seriously: funny-guy meteorologists on the local news wisecracking about ruined golf plans. That has long stopped ...

Standing in his home office in Bethesda, Maryland, meteorologist Jagadish Shukla gestured at the high-resolution satellite map of India hung on the wall. It shows every groove of his home country’s ...

Weather forecasting is one of the most advanced sciences on Earth. But it’s also one of the most complex and humbling. Here's ...

From inspecting the productivity of fruit trees and measuring the stripes on colorful caterpillars, to looking for moon rings and counting foggy August days, old wives' tales have often used elements ...

How do you get your weather forecast? Do you get it from the news? Do you get it online? Your phone app? Or do you perhaps look at the amount of acorns on the ground, or the shape of persimmon seeds?

How do you get your weather forecasts? Do you get it from the news? Do you get it online? Or do you perhaps look at the amount of acorns on the ground, or look at the shape of persimmon seeds? The Old ...

Meteorological winter is a little more than a month away. We have already looked at how a “warm blob” in the northern Pacific Ocean and unusually cooler water along the equator in the eastern Pacific ...