When you look at a weather map on TV or online there are certain items that are standard and stand out. They’ve been known about as long as the science of meteorology has been studied. We’re ...

A brutal heat wave across the eastern United States trapped millions of people in sweltering air this week with record-high ...

When you see a meteorologist do the nightly forecast, you often see the red and blue lines on the weather maps. Those are fronts -- but what are fronts, exactly ...

The various heights of certain pressures are given in millibars and meters. Some maps even show weather variables higher than Denali, the highest mountain peak in North America, at 6,190 meters.