As the Los Angeles area begins cleaning up from devastating wildfires, city officials and emergency managers are worried ...

Ball Lightning Ball lightning is one of the most enigmatic weather phenomena known to man. It occurs globally, particularly ...

Moisture sweeping down the coast will drench much of California, including areas that burned severely just a month ago.

One of the most notable examples of flash flooding after a wildfire occurred in 2018, following the devastating Thomas Fire ...

bringing flash floods, landslides and wildfire. Instead of treating flood and fire as separate phenomena, we should be joining the soaked and charred dots to recognise and mitigate the dual risks ...

Helping drive the wildfires in the US city of Los Angeles are the so-called Santa Ana winds, a weather phenomenon known to dry out "the hills and the nerves to flash point." The windstorms occur ...

A fire tornado, also called a firenado, results from a wildfire burning particularly hot during strong winds, which can swirl the flames into a phenomenon that resembles a tornado of flame.

Fire whirl, fire devil, fire tornado or even firenado — scientists, firefighters and regular folks use multiple terms to describe similar phenomena, and they don’t always agree on what’s what.

As if they aren't already facing enough, firefighters in California also could encounter fire tornadoes — a rare but dangerous phenomenon in which wildfires create their own weather. Los Angeles ...