Are you feeling waterlogged by all the wet weather this past week? You are not the only one. As a meteorologist, I am always scanning the horizon for a break in the pattern. Over the past seven days, ...

Global temperatures were stuck at near-record highs in April, the EU's climate monitor said on Thursday, extending an ...

We are just a week into May, and already one of the most useful weather instruments is proving its worth. It is the classic rain gauge. This simple tool, often made of clear plastic, helps measure ...

The D-Day landings, which took place a year before liberation, marked a pivotal moment during World War Two. It was the ...

Weather forecasters have amazing tools at their disposal. Satellites observe changing weather patterns from orbit; powerful ...

This library component is a parser for decoding the raw SYNOP weather report. SYNOP (surface synoptic observations) is a numerical code (called FM-12 by WMO) used for reporting weather observations ...

The National Weather Service (NWS ... This data is collectively called a radiosonde observation (RAOB) and, when plotted on a thermodynamic chart such as a Skew-T log (p) diagram, is colloquially ...

This is a 500 mb constant pressure chart drawn by looking at the radiosonde observation (weather balloon) data as the primary source. Meteorologists use these constant pressure charts rather than ...

Issued at 3:31 am EST Sunday 20 April 2025 (issued every 10 minutes, with the page automatically refreshed every 5 minutes) Where no observation is available within the last 75 minutes, the latest ...

Weather observations show what weather has occurred. The Latest Coastal Weather Observations pages for each state or territory include Automatic Weather Station observations and manual observations.

An internal document describes how severe shortages of meteorologists and other staff members could affect forecasts and other operations. By Lisa Friedman The National Weather Service is ...

Every second, your brain processes over 11 million bits of visual information—yet you’re only consciously aware of about 40. That’s why optical illusions are so sneaky—and so addictive.