COMSTOCK PARK, Mich. — Meteorologists all over the world use a wide variety of instruments to measure things like temperature, air pressure, humidity and a host of other variables. In Tuesday's ...

Bucknell University Professor Katelyn Allers, physics & astronomy, is publishing the first measurement of atmospheric wind speed outside the solar system using a new technique she developed. Her study ...

A team of researchers at the Ocean University of China has developed and tested a mobile lidar (light detection and ranging) station that can accurately measure wind speed and direction over large ...

The WeatherFlow Wind Meter and its android and iOS apps not only measures wind speed, it also logs measurements and supports sharing at a very low price. There are many situations in which it’s ...

From 1 to 5, the numbers we use to categorize hurricanes are ingrained in the minds of millions of Americans from Texas to Maine. But that famed Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale, which only measures ...

Hurricane Matthew was inching along the Florida coastline on Friday, so close to land that its eyewall — the region of the hurricane’s strongest winds — is brushing the shore, but not close enough to ...

Each week meteorologist Jerry Jackson answers student’s questions in the Atmosphere Academy. This week’s question was asked in a different way than usual, so we’re going to answer it the same way: in ...

There are. Your point is well-taken as anyone who has navigated Chicago’s high-rise canyons can attest. The National Weather Service demands strict guidelines for ...

Astronomers have used the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) and NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to make the first measurement of wind speed on a brown dwarf -- an ...