CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — In this week's Hot Topics in the Tropics, we haven't had a whole lot of 'hot topics' to track here. Now that August has begun, that means hurricane season is kicking into high ...

Besides the influences of El Nino and La Nina on the Indian monsoon, Madden Julian oscillations (MJO) have a major impact on extreme rainfall in the state, says a study by atmospheric scientists at ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — There's a wave moving about in the atmosphere that's about to enter the Atlantic. No, it's not a tropical wave like those we look at to turn into hurricanes, but a wave ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) - The Pinpoint Weather Team is taking viewer requests on weather topics. A viewer asked Chief Meteorologist Mike McCall what the MJO is. It’s a bit long to explain in a ...

Remember a few weeks ago when the tropics were quiet in the Atlantic, yet we had three to four tropical systems in the Pacific, and now that trend has seemingly flipped? There's a reason for that.

Given the quick start we’ve seen to the 2016 Atlantic hurricane season--with Tropical Storms Danielle and Colin the earliest third and fourth named storms on record--the Atlantic may not need much ...

I’ve covered the MJO many times in the past. It (MJO=convection-thunderstorms/rising/sinking air over vast areas) impacts the jet stream pattern across the Northern ...