Though severe weather can happen at any time, April 1 is often considered the start of severe weather season—and now more ...

The UK used to rely on the oil and gas that lay beneath the North Sea. Now it increasingly harnesses the winds that blow over it, accelerating the use of data and specialist software to plan, operate ...

Editor’s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet initiative has ...

Predicting the weather is a science, but it’s not a perfect science. Wind, in particular, is hard to nail down. Truly reliable predictions extend just days in advance---weeks, at most. Foretelling ...

Future wind satellites should increase vertical resolution to better resolve gravity waves in the tropics, writes a team of researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS), ...

Extreme winds are a major peril for the UK insurance industry and are a significant hazard for the UK infrastructure sector. Statistics from the Association of British Insurers for the period 1998 to ...

A large wind turbine, 80 meters tall with 40-meter-long blades, folded like a flip phone and collapsed onto a roadside. At the moment it nearly struck a passenger vehicle, a driver narrowly escaped ...