Meteorologist Paul Douglas answers reader questions about the weather and other natural phenomena every couple of weeks.

In recent years, the frequency of weather-related natural disasters—cyclones, torrential rains, floods—has increased as a consequence of global warming. These disasters cause billions of dollars in ...

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Starting with iOS 27, Apple's Weather app offers new hourly and 10-day overviews for precipitation and wind that you can quickly view at a glance. While this sort of information was already accessible ...

As fire-weather risk expands beyond California, utilities are turning to sub-kilometer, asset-level forecasts to support public safety power shutoff decisions they can defend in front of regulators.

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The weather report is rarely spot-on, but if forecasts have seemed particularly inaccurate recently, it’s because they have ...

Have you ever noticed that the weather forecast on TV might say, "We’re looking at record heat today — it’s going to be 112 today!" But, if you open up your weather app on your phone, it’ll say ...