For the second time this year, Southern Californians are evacuating their homes as heavy rain threatens new destruction in areas still recovering from last month’s devastating wildfires.

This study developed an open-source tornado database for the Chinese mainland from 2004-2019, utilizing the Enhanced Fujita ...

"We're at solar maximum; to find time to make some of these big changes is going to require time and more resources, so we ...

The KING 5 Investigators uncover how western Washington is fighting to prevent a destructive Pacific Palisades-scale fire from sparking in the Evergreen State.

A storm system continuing on its trek across the nation has brought a renewed threat of flooding rain and severe weather ...

Tornado Speed One of the most striking attributes of tornadoes is their incredible speed. The wind speeds within a tornado ...

Explainer: The wind speed of the Mangawhai tornado is similar to one that's occurred before - RNZ has been looking at what we ...

Notably, the application of a modified Enhanced Fujita (EF) scale is adapted to local ... For instance, the probability of high-intensity tornadoes (EF2 and above) was calculated for specific ...

enabling accurate measurements of damage and tornado intensity. Since 2021, the China Meteorological Administration Tornado Key Laboratory has employed UAVs in damage surveys for 14 tornadoes ...

Tornados are categorised using the International Tornado Intensity Scale (The T Scale) which ranks the event based on separate wind speed, track length, track width and track area, according to ...