For decades, the dry line has carried a kind of celebrity status in American weather lore, thanks in no small part to a certain 1990s tornado movie and countless spring storm chases across the ...

Dodge City, Kansas is perhaps best known for inspiring the phrase “get outta Dodge,” popularized by the 1950s TV show “Gunsmoke.” But it’s also one of the places where the 100th Meridian, the ...

Warm fronts, cold fronts, occluded fronts and stationary fronts can all generate precipitation, but there’s one other type of dividing line that can also do that. It’s not called a “front,” but it ...

It’s a weather phenomenon that is of great importance in the western Great Plains. The dry line is a boundary or transition zone that separates a dry air mass from a moist one. Since dry air is denser ...

A big part of North Texas weather during the spring is a feature called the dry line. It is an imaginary dividing line from very dry air to the west and moist air to the east. It typically sets up ...

A dry line marks the boundary between a moist air mass and dry air mass, according to the weather.gov website.