It’s “where the earth meets the sky on an absolutely flat line,” he says. Meola says his storm-chasing experience can be summed up in one word: awesome, as in the literal sense of inspiring awe.

Racing towards a potentially deadly storm may sound like an absurd thing to do – but for some scientific researchers, chasing extreme weather can be enlightening as well as exhilarating.

Saturday will bring a significant risk of severe weather to the South, including strong wind gusts over 70 miles per hour, ...

"We don't need PhDs and fancy tech." Walton doesn't have a background in meteorology. She went on a storm-chasing tour in 2018 and then began studying on her own. "I realized I could teach myself ...

“It's one of those days that no matter how many years you storm chase, it gives you butterflies because you get extremely concerned for public safety. You're not excited about the outbreak. You're ...