Residents of the lower Colorado River Valley endure strong, turbulent winds due to a pressure gradient and unique geography, ...

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 ...

This segment originally appeared in today's edition of the Morning Brief newsletter. Sign up here to get weekday updates from The Weather Channel and our meteorologists. Pressure gradient is the ...

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 ...

Windstorms can seem like they come out of nowhere, hitting with a sudden blast. They might be hundreds of miles long, stretching over several states, or just in your neighborhood. But they all have ...

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