The Chicago area could see widely scattered showers and thunderstorms Saturday afternoon, with damaging “downburst winds” and quarter-size hail possible. Storms were forming in the western portions of ...

DALLAS — The damaging winds Monday in the Fort Worth Stockyards and Lancaster might have come as a surprise to the rest of North Texas, which, for the most part, saw a sunny, warm July day. But the ...

WASHINGTON — Strong storms Monday have officials warning of dangerous conditions across the D.C. region. Damaging wind is the biggest threat from the storms expected until 10 p.m. Widespread gusts ...

This week’s weather coverage here in South Florida has been all about the Saharan air layer: the dust that follows the same winds that hurricanes follow from Africa all the way over to the United ...

The National Weather Service said that a downburst is a strong, downward-moving current of air known as a downdraft that leads to damaging winds on or near the ground. Microburst and macroburst ...

The National Weather Service office in Mount Holly, N.J., conducted a survey in Delaware County on Friday hours after a severe thunderstorm caused significant property damage in parts of the county.