Talk about on a wing and prayer. East of Mount Everest and the Himalayas is one of the world’s most notorious airstrips — one ...

Blowing snow can trick ultrasonic wind meters as well. In any case, Antarctica holds the Guinness World Record for the fastest katabatic wind (wind that travels down a slope), which was 168 mph ...

Only a select group of 50 jet jockeys worldwide possess the skill to master the demanding manoeuvres needed to land at Paro.

Ringed by mountains, Bhutan’s Paro International Airport (PBH) is widely considered one of the most technically difficult ...

Geography and gravity combine here to unleash powerful katabatic winds—dense waves of cold air that rush down mountain corridors like avalanches tumbling toward the sea. The next blast hits.

Research from 2013 had suggested these "troughs" might be caused by katabatic winds—winds that start off moving rapidly, causing erosion, and then quickly drop and slow down, resulting in deposits.

Part memoir, part travelogue, part scientific reportage, Porter Fox's 'Category Five' is stuffed with statistics that could ...

Ringed by mountains, Bhutan’s Paro International Airport (PBH) is widely considered one of the most technically difficult plane landings in the world.

Superstorms and the Warming Oceans That Feed Them” is a mouthful of a title, but there’s a lot packed into its 254 pages.

“So land is parched and you get all these up drops and get all these anabatic/katabatic winds in the valley in the afternoon. Mornings are much calmer.” That is less of an issue with ...

The jargon may sometimes have non-weather and boating enthusiasts Googling things like “katabatic squalls,” “violent sirocco” or “mizzen,” but Fox grounds his writing with good stories ...