If weather were a rock band, atmospheric pressure might be the bassist — sitting in the background, not quite the center of attention, but crucial to driving the tempo and tone. Air pressure systems ...

The inside of giant planets can reach pressures more than one million times the Earth's atmosphere. As a result of that ...

Houston this week could add a few more days of triple-digit heat to the current tally of two this year as high atmospheric pressure moves in and rain chances dwindle. Bush Intercontinental Airport, ...

A subtropical ridge of high atmospheric pressure is centered over New Mexico and West Texas, but it is expansive enough to maintain its influence as a heat dome over Central Texas, bringing plenty of ...