Winter is overrunning its welcome, quite literally. As back-to-back storms take over the northern tier, overrunning is ...

A monsoon is a shift in seasonal wind pattern that brings on a very rainy period. In the U.S., the desert southwest, the ...

However, when wildfires begin consuming homes and businesses, the ash is made up of much more toxic materials. This can have ...

But if you want to read weather reports from other places, here are 18 weather words you might not know, and what they mean. Water that falls from the sky in the form of rain, snow or hail.

Kona lows set up to the west or northwest of the islands and draw up lots of moisture from the south, creating messy and ...

J ennifer Gray is a weather and climate writer for weather.com. She has been covering some of the world's biggest weather and climate stories for the last two decades. The Weather Company’s ...

Lastly, hail is NOT a type of winter weather. It only forms in strong to severe thunderstorms. We’ll have more on both graupel and hail in future installments of “Weather Word of the Week.” ...