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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As a pressure gradient weakens over the region, winds will continue to relax through the night. They'll be picking back up again as a snow system moves in before the ...