SEATTLE — This week’s windstorm brought widespread impacts and damage to western Washington, including several wind gusts worth noting. A 64 mile per hour wind gust hit the south coast at Hoquiam, a ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — There is no doubt the storms that hit Oregon — bringing tornadoes to the coast, downing trees and leaving thousands without power — were big storms, significant events that ...

A millibar is a measure of pressure. The Earth’s atmosphere exerts a pressure of 14.7 pounds on every square inch at sea level, or 1,013.25 millibars (and progressively lesser pressures at higher ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The strongest hurricanes in Atlantic Basin history span the gamut from the Great Depression to present day. Improvements in ...

To maximize fuel efficiency on a road trip, keeping your tires properly inflated is paramount. Something similar can be said about providing an accurate weather forecast. Simply put, air pressure is ...

Hurricane Wilma doesn’t stop making history: It is the strongest, most intense Atlantic hurricane in terms of barometric pressure and the most rapidly strengthening on record. A hurricane hunter plane ...

Hurricane Melissa made landfall Tuesday as one of the strongest hurricanes on record in the Atlantic basin. The Category 5 storm made landfall in southwestern Jamaica near New Hope with estimated ...