ORLANDO, Fla. - Tropical Storm Melissa, soon to be Hurricane Melissa, is located around 155 miles SE of Kingston, Jamaica.

Wind shear is defined as the change in wind speed, wind direction, or both, over some distance. You may have heard airplane pilots talk about turbulence and warn passengers that they’re in for a bumpy ...

Tropical Storm Melissa continues to slowly move northwest with sustained winds near 70 mph -- just shy of becoming the fifth ...

Zachary Handlos receives funding from the National Science Foundation. He is affiliated with the American Meteorological Society. I teach meteorology at Georgia Tech, in a part of the country that ...

Life-threatening flash flooding is possible in Jamaica and Haiti as slow-moving Melissa continues to strengthen and impact ...

When a slab slides beneath an overriding plate in a subduction zone, the slab takes on a property called anisotropy, meaning ...