While the air temperature tells us how cold the air actually is, wind chill explains why it can feel much colder on a windy day.

Wind chills are expected to plummet to between minus 10 in southern counties to minus 20 degrees in northern counties from Saturday night into early Sunday morning. Far northwest New Jersey could see ...

Matt Korda, the associate director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists, assisted USA ...

With a gust in Hurricane Melissa setting a record for peak gust measured by a specialized instrument dropped into the eye of a hurricane – 252 mph – you might be wondering what the fastest wind speeds ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hurricane Melissa has officially entered the record books after scientists verified a wind gust of 252 mph as the storm approached ...

Hurricane Melissa's wind gusts reached a record-breaking speed shortly before the storm made landfall in the Caribbean last month, according to data recorded during the deadly event. The data was ...

The incredible 252 mph peak wind gust measured in Hurricane Melissa as it approached Jamaica was verified this week. That wind gust is now officially the highest wind speed ever recorded by the ...

Leading Light Wind would have used ocean gusts to power about 1 million New Jersey homes. TRENTON -- Another offshore wind developer has abandoned an ocean power project for New Jersey. Attorneys for ...

When Melissa grew from a tropical storm into a powerful Category 5 hurricane, it became the fourth of this year’s five Atlantic hurricanes to undergo what hurricane experts call “rapid intensification ...

The famed elements, Earth, Wind & Fire, are getting their story brought to the small screen. Questlove announced in 2024 that he was working on a documentary about the famed funk band. Now, the ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Climate change is affecting global wind patterns in multiple ways, many of which have direct implications for human health. Worsening sand and dust ...