Frigid temps and heavy snow gripped much of the U.S. on December 1, the first day of meteorological winter. It looks like ...

Could the first snow of the season arrive with one of winter’s most powerful storm types? According to forecasters, yes and ...

NORMAN, OKLA. – A new study published in Nature Communications Earth and Environment gives possible insight into the underprediction of sea ice depletion and the formation of Arctic cyclones. Led by ...

NORMAN, Okla. — Giant cyclones of snow and ice are breaking up thin ice in the Arctic, leading to rapid ice loss events, and it’s happening more now than ever before. A scientist at OU described an ...

A bomb cyclone is a meteorological term that describes a low pressure system whose size, strength and intensity increase rapidly in just a short amount of time.

NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using VIIRS data. Caption by Adam Voiland with information from Robert Walsh, Xiangdong Zhang, and Steve Vavrus. An unusually large, long ...

Over the first three weeks of August, the average temperature in Fargo was nearly 4 degrees below average. One of the principal reasons for that change in the weather pattern was the development of a ...

The diminishment of Arctic sea ice has led to increased human activities in the Arctic, and has heightened interest in, and concerns about, the region’s future. The United States, by virtue of Alaska, ...

"This leads to the view that it was the enhanced influence of the cyclone which contributed to the reduction in ice area, rather than low sea ice area being ...