This week’s weather question comes from 7-year-old Aiden Smiley. He wants to know where wind comes from and how it forms. Wind comes from uneven heating on earth’s surface from the sun. For instance, ...

PORTLAND (WGME) -- The last couple of days have been very windy across the state of Maine, but you may be asking yourself, "What exactly causes wind?" In simple terms, wind forms due to the ...

Does it feel like Texas hasn’t had a break from the wind lately? You’re not imagining it. April is, in fact, the windiest month across the state, from the Panhandle to the Gulf Coast. Average ...

When the wind does what we want, we don’t give it a second thought. But if we’re counting on the wind to do one thing and it does the other, it can ruin plans. To forecast for wind, we must first ...

As temperatures plummet and the winds howl this winter, you'll hear about the dangers of the "wind chill." So what is it? The wind chill temperature is how cold people (and animals) feel while outside ...

Wind shear is defined as the change in wind speed, wind direction, or both, over some distance. You may have heard airplane pilots talk about turbulence and warn passengers that they’re in for a bumpy ...

Wind chill alone can never make an object colder than the air temperature. The Weather Service began to include wind chill in their forecasts in the early 1970s. When the wind chill is around 40 ...

Zachary Handlos receives funding from the National Science Foundation. He is affiliated with the American Meteorological Society. I teach meteorology at Georgia Tech, in a part of the country that ...