but — thanks to a meandering jet stream — parts of the vortex can slosh down into North America, helping to funnel unspeakably cold air into the central and eastern U.S., like what's forecast ...

but — thanks to a meandering jet stream — parts of the vortex can slosh down into North America, Europe or Asia, helping to funnel unspeakably cold air down here where we live. It also ...

Landspouts are a type of tornado. They form differently from conventional tornadoes, which are born from cloud-based rotation. Instead, landspouts grow from the ground up.

“Typically because these form by a less strong process than a tornado would, you end up with the winds in the vortex itself being up to 50 miles per hour.” There are no reports that any funnel ...

The Carr Fire also engaged in some meteorological sorcery on July 26, as it conjured up an intense fire vortex: a blazing funnel with winds reaching 143 miles an hour and temperatures up to 2,700°F.

If this vortex never completely materializes, it may just be a funnel that never reaches the ground. In that case, it's only considered a funnel cloud that does no damage. The funnel must reach ...

The dust devil then begins to move across the ground, picking up more and more dust, which highlights the vortex making it visible to the eye. The dust devil, once formed, is a funnel-like chimney ...