It’s 9:15 in the morning. The wind is roaring at 110 miles per hour (177 kph); the sound is deafening. Dust swirls through the air. We are watching a single-wide manufactured home rock back and forth, ...

A single line of thunderstorms can drive straight-line winds across a path stretching hundreds of miles, snapping trees, shredding roofs, and leaving entire counties without power for days. That ...

How much wind does it take to destroy a house? Florida International University is trying to figure that out. Researchers put a manufactured house to the test this week by blowing a “wall of wind” at ...

This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Elaina Sutley is an Associate Professor of Engineering at ...