Charlottesville and much of central Virginia were under an extreme heat warning Tuesday, with temperatures predicted to stay ...

The polar vortex is coming—and raising the odds for intense winter weather. In the stratosphere over Siberia, temperatures recently jumped nearly 100 degrees Fahrenheit, shoving the polar vortex ...

In November 1965 a Von Karman vortex street occurred at the Ferrybridge 3 coal-fired power station in West Yorkshire, England. There was a group of eight cooling towers, each over 300 feet tall.