WASHINGTON — Strong storms Monday have officials warning of dangerous conditions across the D.C. region. Damaging wind is the biggest threat from the storms expected until 10 p.m. Widespread gusts ...

The Chicago area could see widely scattered showers and thunderstorms Saturday afternoon, with damaging “downburst winds” and quarter-size hail possible. Storms were forming in the western portions of ...

The National Weather Service said that a downburst is a strong, downward-moving current of air known as a downdraft that leads to damaging winds on or near the ground. Microburst and macroburst ...

Downburst is a term that describes a strong wind event caused by a downdraft within a thunderstorm. These powerful winds develop when precipitation falls through dry air, leading to a rapid ...

This week’s weather coverage here in South Florida has been all about the Saharan air layer: the dust that follows the same winds that hurricanes follow from Africa all the way over to the United ...

During the first half of 2023 alone, there were over 7,000 reports of severe-caliber thunderstorm winds or associated damage, according to the National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center. These ...

Severe weather was a downburst, not a tornado While it caused extensive damage, researchers with the Northern Tornadoes Project say the weekend event at a provincial park was a downburst, not a ...

The National Weather Service office in Mount Holly, N.J., conducted a survey in Delaware County on Friday hours after a severe thunderstorm caused significant property damage in parts of the county.

WICHITA, Kan. (KAKE) — As summer storms roll across Kansas, you may hear the term downburst. So what exactly is a downburst, and what makes it different from other types of thunderstorms?