In 2024, three hurricanes landed in Florida: two in the Big Bend and one on the West Coast. Florida’s narrow width allows it ...

Nature is capable of the most mysterious, surreal, stunning, and powerful things. The only thing we can do as humans is to ...

Nestled in the heart of Marshall, Little Amerricka is the plucky little park that could. It’s like someone shrunk down all ...

Explainer: The wind speed of the Mangawhai tornado is similar to one that's occurred before - RNZ has been looking at what we ...

A 12-week-old colt is an orphan this week after its mother, a valuable broodmare, was hit by lightning in one of last week's ...

A meteorologist says it’s unclear whether the damage in Mangawhai was the work of a tornado: but the ingredients were likely ...

Wildfires continue to rage across the Los Angeles region. The largest blaze, the Palisades fire, has burned approximately 24,000 acres.

The National Wildfire Coordinating Group’s glossary of wildland fire terms doesn’t include an entry for fire tornado, but it defines a fire whirl as a “spinning vortex column of ascending ...

Fire tornadoes, or fire whirls, are "spinning, moving columns" of air that rise from a vortex, carrying smoke, debris and flames, according to the National Weather Service. McKinley was "standing ...