While winter is upon us here, it’s nearing summertime in Antarctica, which for NASA’s Scientific Balloon Program means one thing: anticyclone! The groundtrack of the Super-TIGER mission, which flew ...

Weather - The North African anticyclone is about to return, bringing a wave of unusual heat from the upcoming weekend to Monday: temperatures will reach, and in some cases exceed, peaks of 26-28°C.

The African anticyclone is becoming increasingly dominant. The Mediterranean climate has changed, with milder winters and scorching summers. It has sub-tropical roots like the Azores anticyclone but ...

IN his letter entitled “The Mechanics of the Glacial Anticyclone Illustrated, by Experiment” published in NATURE for July 22, Prof. Hobbs remarks: “In all my writings upon the glacial anticyclone I ...

If you’re at all aware of the heat wave baking southern Europe right now, you’ll have heard people referring to it as “Cerberus”—a moniker that invokes the fearsome three-headed dog of Greek mythology ...

BOULDER, Colo. — Americans have been learning a lot about the harsh climate of northern China during the Olympics. Wind chill temperatures have consistently been below freezing and sometimes close to ...

ROME — Regional authorities in Sicily recorded temperatures of 48.8 degrees Celsius (119.8 Fahrenheit) Wednesday as an anticyclone dubbed “Lucifer” swept in, which if confirmed would be a new Italian ...

Scots have seen a significant shift in the weather since the carnage of Storm Amy a couple of weeks ago, with high pressure now dominating conditions. And the Met Office has explained in its latest ...