Miami Beach, thunderstorm, arcus cloud and rain over ocean. (Photo by: Jeffrey Greenberg/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) When intense storms move over open water, they can ...

Meteotsunamis. You may have never heard the term. It's a weather-related phenomenon that happens around the world, and here in the Great Lakes. Atmospheric weather events like a fast-moving ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For a state that sees natural disasters regularly, the words "Florida" and "tsunami" rarely, if ever, go together within a ...

CLEARWATER, Fla. — A line of squally weather spurred a meteotsunami on Clearwater Beach earlier this week. A what — a tsunami on the Gulf of Mexico? In Florida? Let's explain. Radar showed a line of ...

A meteotsunami is a large wave that occurs due to air pressure disturbances. They are often driven by fast-moving weather events, including severe thunderstorms and squall lines. The fast-moving and ...

When intense storms move over open water, they can generate a wall of water known as a meteotsunami, an uncommon event that can cause damage along the coast of bodies of water. These events can be ...