Do you know what causes wind? Well, broadly speaking it’s the sun... but more specifically, how the sun unevenly heats the Earth’s surface. That leads to areas of high and low pressure forming, and in ...

This week continues to be unusually warm here in the Coachella Valley. This comes as a result of high pressure dominating the ...

A Dec. 4 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows an image of Earth from space. Earth's atmosphere is labeled "pressurized gas," while outer space is labeled "infinite vacuum." A third label ...

Those gusty winds bedeviling Northern California this week are a typical sign of seasonal transition as spring yields to summer, meteorologists said yesterday. Strong winds are the inevitable result ...