The tornado that tore through Parma, Ohio, turned an ordinary winter day into a scene of splintered homes, mangled cars, and darkened streets. In a region more accustomed to lake-effect snow than ...

Researchers at the University of Maine and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are ...

Tennessee leads the nation in the number of nocturnal tornadoes that destroy buildings and ranks among the top states for total deaths.

A halo around the sun or moon is an optical phenomenon created by refracted sunlight or moonlight through tiny ice crystals that make up high-altitude clouds. The light is refracted in 22-degree ...

As a brutal ice blast gripped much of the United States, Texans looking out over frozen lakes were confronted with something that looked tornadic but rose silently from the water. Columns of vapor, ...