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Wisconsin, and in particular UW-Madison, played a prominent role in the establishment of the National Weather Service.

Hurricane intensities are classified using the Saffir–Simpson scale, which rates hurricanes on a scale of 1 to 5 based on the damage their winds would cause upon landfall. Major hurricanes

The surface waters of our polar oceans freeze seasonally, forming a layer of sea ice that varies in thickness from centimeters to meters. The era of polar orbiting satellites has

There are two types of waterspouts: fair weather waterspouts and tornadic waterspouts associated with severe thunderstorms.

When the department was founded in June 1948, the modern science of meteorology was arguably just a few years old and even basic understanding of the nature of the mid-latitude