PASADENA, Calif.--Geoscientists at the California Institute of Technology have come up with a new explanation for the formation of monsoons, proposing an overhaul of a theory about the cause of the ...

It may seem as if weather is becoming more extreme with each year. Every summer there are record high temperatures sweeping the nations, extreme droughts and severe thunderstorms. This carries over to ...

Arizona summers can be unbearably hot as the state experiences some of the highest temperatures in the country. On average, Phoenix has 111 days with temperatures over 100 degrees, according to the ...

In the middle of summer, most Southern Californians would be surprised to see more than a handful of clouds in the sky (unless you count clouds of wildfire smoke). But on July 14 in Twentynine Palms, ...

Our ancestors knew how to manage monsoons: they did not settle permanently along river banks, infrastructure was built above the high water mark, and in the plains farmers did not fear floods but ...