If weather were a rock band, atmospheric pressure might be the bassist — sitting in the background, not quite the center of attention, but crucial to driving the tempo and tone. Air pressure systems ...

I'm sure you've heard meteorologists refer to high and low pressure. As many of you know, the weather you are experiencing is heavily influenced by upper-level patterns, particularly high and low air ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Why does a “cold front” not always bring cold air? And how do we predict prolonged changes in temperatures? Let’s talk about air masses. As defined by NOAA, an air mass is “a large ...

Understanding atmospheric pressure is vital, newsroom meteorologist Justin Ballard said, because those giant H’s and L’s representing high and low air pressure systems on a weather map are meaningless ...