The Coriolis effect is the apparent bending of winds and currents caused by Earth’s rotation, shaping the swirl of storms and ...

A mirage is an optical illusion created when sharp temperature differences near the surface bend light, making distant objects appear distorted, reflected or out of place.

Freezing rain and sleet are both types of wintry precipitation, but have vastly different consequences. Read this article to ...

A ground blizzard is a sub-category of blizzard in which snow is being blown from what is already on the ground without any ...

Chinook winds are warm, dry downslope winds that can cause temperatures to rise rapidly east of the Rocky Mountains, sometimes by dozens of degrees in just hours.

Are you a fall person or an autumn person? When the leaves start to turn and the air gets crisp, you might hear both “fall” and “autumn” used to describe the season, but which one is correct? They can ...

Radar beams quite literally move at the speed of light, and when they bounce off an object in the sky and return to the radar site to be collected and analyzed, we called that an “echo.” For weather ...

David and Ryan leave the studio to find out if those in Downtown Dothan preferred this past weekend's snow or the heavy snow that fell exactly one year ago.

First Alert Meteorologist Derek Witt wraps up this three-part series, breaking down each type of warning issued by the National Weather Service. Meteorologist Derek Witt details what these alerts mean ...