A whirling vortex of smoke seen on camera as the "Park Fire" in California exploded Thursday looked just like a tornado, but scientists are investigating whether it was a rare fire tornado or just a ...

At the moment, temperatures in Chicago are lower than both Alaska and Antarctica. And signs of the bitter cold are all around — most notably surrounding the Chicago River, which is currently "smoking" ...

On Thursday, the NWS Lubbock Twitter page posted a photo of what is described as a "fire/smoke vortex." An NOAA representative provided more information about the meteorological phenomena also known ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A wildfire camera caught the moments when a ...

Smoke rings are being seen in a new light. Doughnut-shaped structures called vortex rings are sometimes seen swirling through fluids. Smokers can form them with their mouths, volcanoes can spit them ...

A smoke vortex swirled southwest of Sundown, Texas, on Thursday, April 7. Fire concerns will continue through the middle of next week from the dry weather. Yahoo Sports ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Let’s talk about Vortexes. A vortex is defined as “a mass of whirling fluid or air, especially a whirlpool or whirlwind.” If you what to harness an air vortex in a small way, Clark ...

This is a "3D rendering of radar reflectivity isosurfaces at 29 (red), 24 (orange), 20-10 (gray shades) dbZe. The vortex center locations are shown as the solid black line. The cloud base heights are ...

To see the gun in action, go to http://tinyurl.com/8xu2npq Engineers at the Battelle Memorial Institute are patenting a special vortex gun they developed. It might ...