AI matches daily forecasts like never before, but when it comes to heat, cold, and wind records, HRES physics rules.

It was only a generation or two ago that weather forecasts were not to be taken too seriously: funny-guy meteorologists on the local news wisecracking about ruined golf plans. That has long stopped ...

Standing in his home office in Bethesda, Maryland, meteorologist Jagadish Shukla gestured at the high-resolution satellite map of India hung on the wall. It shows every groove of his home country’s ...

From inspecting the productivity of fruit trees and measuring the stripes on colorful caterpillars, to looking for moon rings and counting foggy August days, old wives' tales have often used elements ...

How do you get your weather forecasts? Do you get it from the news? Do you get it online? Or do you perhaps look at the amount of acorns on the ground, or look at the shape of persimmon seeds? The Old ...

Folklore forecasting uses natural signs like animal behavior and plant changes to predict winter weather. A naturalist in Louisville observed hedge apples, persimmons, squirrels, walnuts, and woolly ...

Meteorological winter is a little more than a month away. We have already looked at how a “warm blob” in the northern Pacific Ocean and unusually cooler water along the equator in the eastern Pacific ...

Hand picking up persimmon from a fall-colored tree - Emilija Manevska/Getty Images From inspecting the productivity of fruit trees and measuring the stripes on colorful caterpillars, to looking for ...