The Latest from Storm Team 5… We got a bit of a Christmas Miracle today, as the clouds opened up to sunshine all day long for ...

the same apparent Coriolis force that makes low-pressure systems spin counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere. At the equator, this Coriolis force is zero. You can see in the map above the ...

At the same time, Earth's rotation makes air masses move toward and away from the poles because of the Coriolis effect ... counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern ...

Magnetic North, on the other hand, is the point in the northern ... by the Coriolis force means the separate magnetic fields are roughly aligned in the same direction, their combined effect ...

The Coriolis effect does mean that the Earth’s rotation makes hurricanes and cyclones spin counterclockwise in the Northern ...

The term 'geostrophic' refers to the situation where, for an observer on the earth's surface, the vortical currents (the circulating currents flowing around the eddy) induce an equal and opposite ...

Over the past several decades, summer jet streams (or west to east wind flow) and weather systems in the Northern Hemisphere have ... as the weather systems. This effect is about twice as ...

(Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, File) The winter solstice is Saturday, bringing the shortest day and longest night of the year to the Northern Hemisphere — ideal conditions for ...

THURSDAY (JAN 2): Lake effect snow continues although not as widespread in the Northern Lower Peninsula. Higher totals across the U.P. along/north of highway M-28 in particular. Temperatures will ...

In May, NOAA issued a rare severe geomagnetic storm warning — it was the strongest storm in more than two decades, producing light displays across the Northern Hemisphere. And in October ...

In May, NOAA issued a rare severe geomagnetic storm warning — it was the strongest storm in more than two decades, producing light displays across the Northern Hemisphere. In October ...