When the weather is dry, tranquil and nice, you can typically thank high pressure systems for keeping stormy and rainy weather at bay. A high pressure system is essentially a clockwise flow of dry, ...

Understanding atmospheric pressure is vital, newsroom meteorologist Justin Ballard said, because those giant H’s and L’s representing high and low air pressure systems on a weather map are meaningless ...

Climate change – fuelled by increasing greenhouse gases – is causing more extreme weather events worldwide. Many of these events, such as the “rain bomb” inundating Australia’s east coast and the ...