The small-scale weather feature spinning in San Bernardino County on Friday traveled all the way from near Tucson, Arizona on Tuesday night.

Forecasters explained that two mesoscale convection vortexes — one near Waco, and one near the Rio Grande — pulled in storm ...

There are not one but two polar vortexes in each hemisphere, North and South. One exists in the lowest layer of the atmosphere, the troposphere, which is where we live and where the weather happens.

And the vortexes that would result could rise a whopping 15 kilometers in the air (natural tornadoes have clocked in at almost 9 kilometers high).

The size of the vortexes is related to grain size, density, stress and strain rate – and the vortexes last for between a fifth and a tenth of an earthquake’s shear time. Along for the ride. The ...

The interaction between the two masses of air produces vortexes that compress and decompress the air, producing the throbbing effect. Hermann von Helmholtz, ...

The vortexes churn deep beneath the cloud tops and are for the most part invisible to spacecraft that have flown over Saturn. Skip to main content. Open menu Close menu. Space. Search.

Although Cassini's observations of Saturn from 2004 to 2017 helped scientists learn more about the planet's fluid dynamics, the theory about subsurface vortexes didn't hold much footing when the ...