The combination of an upper-level low off the coast of California and the moisture once associated with Tropical Storm Alvin ...

Forecasters are monitoring a significant Saharan dust plume that has the potential to reach the United States next week.

Even without further development, tropical waves can impact local weather in Florida and the Caribbean by influencing ...

The butterfly effect suggests that small changes in a system can have a large impact on eventual outcomes. One metaphor used ...

This unique characteristic is due to the Coriolis effect, which influences storm patterns based on the hemisphere. Cyclone Errol will still bring significant rainfall to the Kimberley coast area ...

The NT and WA's Kimberley are also likely to see enhanced rain into the weekend as the monsoon trough possibly returns to our longitudes — a pattern ... the most active cyclone seasons this ...

The cyclone, currently a Category 2 system ... Most cyclones that form in the Coral Sea follow a typical pattern: they track southeastward, away from the Australian coastline, as they get caught ...

With Cyclone Alfred not expected to unleash on ... Alfred to hit near Brisbane and warned its slower pace and erratic pattern posed an even bigger threat of destructive winds and flooding.

Slow-moving Cyclone Alfred is barrelling toward Brisbane ... warming seas and shifting atmospheric patterns may be making them more frequent and severe. Not to mention cyclones don’t usually ...

However, the same general pattern that has delivered the slew of recent weather worries may persist. Tropical Cyclone Alfred is approaching Australia’s east coast and could hit land in about a day.

In scientific terms, a tropical cyclone is the sum of three parts — a rain band, eye and eyewall — which draw air in toward the centre in a clockwise pattern, and out the top in the opposite ...