Science Central brought the Magdeburg Hemispheres to First News Weekends to show the power of atmospheric pressure.

Ever feel like your body knows when a storm is coming before the weather app does? Turns out, that's not just folklore. 7 pounds per square inch at sea level. When weather systems roll through, that ...

Wind comes from differences in atmospheric pressure. The greater the change in atmospheric pressure, the greater the wind. So, the question now becomes, what makes the ...

What’s the first thing you do after waking up each morning, before you’ve even gotten out of bed? For many people, it’s checking the weather. For most, this is a thoughtless chore, an unexciting daily ...

UW-Milwaukee’s Atmospheric Science program is a part of the School of Freshwater Sciences. The degree program will close at the end of this school year due to low enrollment and faculty retirements, ...

Atmospheric rivers are long, narrow corridors of concentrated water vapor in the atmosphere that transport vast amounts of moisture from the tropics toward mid-latitude and polar regions. These ...

Watch this fascinating demonstration of air pressure at work. Notice how the egg vibrates as the heated air escapes around it, and how it gets smoothly pushed into the bottle by atmospheric pressure.

Meteorological tsunamis, or meteotsunamis, are long ocean waves in the tsunami frequency band that are generated by traveling ...