Radiational cooling is what gives us cooler nights. This can be especially true for areas in the desert and rural locations.

Whether it’s causing an early-morning chill or shaping local weather patterns, cold air pooling is a quiet but powerful force in atmospheric science. Jennifer Gray is a weather and climate ...

Jennifer Gray is a weather and climate writer for weather.com. She has been covering some of the world's biggest weather and climate stories for the last two decades.

It often leads to dreary, damp, and chilly weather that lingers for days, even when nearby areas warm up. People in the Southeast commonly refer to this type of weather setup as “the wedge”.

When one tornado isn’t terrifying enough, sometimes a storm produces a satellite tornado, which is a smaller twister that forms alongside a much larger, dominant tornado. These secondary ...

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Sign up here to get weekday updates from The Weather Channel and our meteorologists.Ever noticed how valleys and low-lying areas feel chillier on calm, clear nights? That’s cold air pooling in action.

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But if you want to read weather reports from other places, here are 18 weather words you might not know, and what they mean. Water that falls from the sky in the form of rain, snow or hail.