Atmospheric rivers are powerful streams of tropical moisture that can bring flooding, landslides, and major snow to the West Coast. Here’s a clear look at what they are, how they form, and why they matter.

Convergence and Divergence control where air rises and sinks in the atmosphere, shaping storms, clear skies, and the weather we experience every day.

A look at the four main ways air rises, the hidden mechanics behind cloud, storms, and snowfall.

The jet stream is a fast-moving river of air high in the atmosphere that controls our weather. Learn how it forms, why it meanders and dips, and how it brings heat, cold, and storms.

Hurricane Melissa rapidly intensified from a tropical storm to a category 5 in less than two days. It’s now bearing down on Jamaica with catastrophic wind, surge, and rainfall. I take a look at how it formed.

Lake effect weather seems easy to understand: cold air moving over warm water. But there’s a lot more behind these events. I break it down in this post.

I’m learning that forecasting isn’t about being perfect. It’s about trusting the process and what the atmosphere is teaching me.

Weather is the atmosphere adjusting itself to stay in balance. This post looks at what weather really is and how those constant changes shape what we see every day.

All the models have been in agreement this week, and it made me wonder what I can learn from stability.

Watching this week’s nor’easter develop of the Southeast Coast showed how many parts of the atmosphere have to align for a powerful storm to form. This post breaks down how it formed, why it intensified, and what made it a classic nor’easter.

Learn how atmospheric features called troughs and ridges control storm tracks, temperature swings, and the patterns that define our daily weather.