Heavy rainfall hit the Louisiana sugar cane industry this fall, slowing down the harvesting process and reducing crop yields. Rain from the remnants of Hurricane Patricia and additional storms dumped ...

The Fundamental Water Cycle Process Water moves between pools through evaporation into water vapor, transport through the atmosphere, condensation to form clouds, and returns to the surface as ...

Clouds floating over withered crops and desiccated soil hold millions of tonnes of water that could nourish the land and replenish our wells. What if humans could force those clouds to produce rain ...

The Convective Precipitation Experiment (COPE) documented the dynamical and microphysical evolution of convection in southwestern England for testing and improving quantitative precipitation ...

METROMEX was the first major field program aimed at studying the reality and causes of urban rainfall anomalies suggested in several climatological studies. The results from the 1971–74 METROMEX data ...

Together, with the support of China's new Sunway supercomputer, researchers precisely simulated and reproduced the extreme rainfall process. The simulation results were highly consistent with actual ...

random weather question surfaces in the KQED newsroom, to wit: “A member of my household (OK, my husband) would like to know why do some parts of the Bay Area always get more rain than others? We get ...