When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Heavy rain and storms have stagnated over parts of the U.S. this week due to an ongoing omega ...

Plenty of weather patterns have strange but fitting names. Brutal nor’easters can rapidly strengthen as bomb cyclones. Ferocious squalls lines can grow into derechos. Storms aren't the only features ...

A strange atmospheric pattern known as an "omega block" is preventing the usual eastward progression of weather across the U.S. — but what is this weird block, and when will it go away? When you ...