You've felt it during the last scorching summer day. The air thick, oppressive, brutal. Maybe you blamed climate change or bad luck. Yet sometimes the culprit lives much closer to home than you'd ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Extreme heat can become lethal quickly. A young man cools off at Washington, D.C.'s Yards Park during a heat wave in 2021. Olivier ...

A wide variety of clean energy resources can strengthen the electric grid and help protect Americans from the increasing health threats and power outages fueled by climate change-driven extreme heat ...

What’s not to love about warmer weather, I say? Bring on the blue skies, sunshine on my skin, and ditching the heavy, winter layers. Summer is certainly my season. But when the temperature keeps ...

The jet stream, or any wind, is the result of differences in surface temperature. In simple terms, warm air rises, creating low pressure, and cold air sinks, creating high pressure. Wind is the ...

When Floridians talk about extreme weather, hurricanes dominate the conversation. Each season brings updates on storm tracks, cone predictions and wind speeds, all in the hopes of predicting the ...

Heat waves can form when a high-pressure system moves into a region and stalls. The system can force warm air downward, acting like a cap as it keeps the cool air near the surface from rising, ...