KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — East Tennesseans and visitors to the Smoky Mountains looking to hit the slopes will have to wait a little longer. Ober Gatlinburg announced Friday it is delaying production ...

If you awoke in a bleary-eyed panic on Monday morning, wondering why someone was setting off fireworks directly above your bedroom, you’re not alone. Shortly before 6 a.m., as lightning lashed at the ...

What’s an inversion? An inversion is when the temperature gets warmer with height. We usually think of the temperature falling with height, but in this case, the opposite is true. So, what are a ...

Have you ever walked outside in Pueblo on a cold morning and seen the haze in the sky? Or watched our morning forecasts and seen Woodland Park is warmer than Pueblo? It’s very common at this time of ...

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Temperature inversions occur when a layer of warmer air aloft overlies cooler air at the surface, inhibiting vertical mixing and trapping pollutants within the atmospheric boundary layer. Such ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Have you noticed how cold it has been the last few mornings? How about the fog that’s been preventing the morning sunrise from gracing the picturesque sky of Portland? This was ...

Over the last week, multiple prescribed burns have taken place across western Montana. With those ongoing, you may have noticed a slight haziness to the sky -- it's the result of an inversion. So what ...

There can be long stretches throughout the year, especially during the winter, when it doesn't seem like the clouds want to break up. The lack of sunshine can come from what meteorologists call a ...

Temperatures in the atmosphere generally decrease with increasing height, but occasionally one can find layers in which temperatures actually increase with height – an “inversion” of the normal ...