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Remember the series of reservoir filling and snowpack building winter storms California experienced mid-January? It was the result of an “atmospheric river” driving a series of Pacific storms onshore, just like the event...

An unusual April storm system brought heavy rains to northern California during the beginning of the month. The soaking rains caused localized flooding and even melted some higher elevation snow, but also filled reservoirs...

China needs water — and their answer to the issue is a massive weather modification system being developed by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC)...

From the INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES and the “we think but we aren’t sure, but let’s blame AGW anyway” department...

By Keith Randall, Texas A&M Marketing and Communications Hurricane Harvey was billed as a once-in-every-500-year event, and it more than lived up to its billing...

Yesterday, we carried a story from the Texas State Climatologist on a new 3-day rainfall record being set in Houston. Today, another record fell. Tuesday afternoon, the National Weather Service (NWS) announced that a gauge...

By Dr. John Neilsen-Gammon, Texas State Climatologist who writes in via email – Based on my not-fully-vetted record compilation, Harris County Flood Control District gauge #110 just broke the all-time record for greatest...

Scientists have been stumped for years over why the southern Amazon rainforest's rainy season begins two to three months earlier than they'd expect. But now an international team that includes researchers from NASA and Google...

Climate change is often connected to heat waves and hot temperatures. But researchers recently found very different weather patterns could arise in a dry region of Africa: the Sahel. The area sprawls across multiple countries...

From the California Dept. of Water Resources Northern Sierra Precipitation Sets Water Year Record Atmospheric Rivers Pushed Total to 89.7 Inches since October 1 SACRAMENTO – Never in nearly a century of Department of Water...

NASA eyes Pineapple Express soaking California – video follows From the NASA/GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER NASA has estimated rainfall from the Pineapple Express over the coastal regions southwestern Oregon and northern...

The house, dubbed the "Puddle", is located in a densely populated area of Matsusaka City in Japan's Mie prefecture. The large opening in its roof surface extends down into the living area and forms a small room where a puddle...

Predicting seasonal rainfall months ahead has surely got to be the Holy Grail of weather forecasting. Imagine the billions of dollars, the man-hours, and the anguish-prevented if we can do it. What if neural nets can be trained,...

From the UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON When the moon is high in the sky, it creates bulges in the planet’s atmosphere that creates imperceptible changes in the amount of rain that falls below...

Extreme rain events fueled by the current strong El Nino have started to affect California. NASA estimated rainfall over a period of 7 days while NASA/NOAA’s GOES Project created a satellite animation showing the storms...

Works out what your expected rainfall capture should be over a given year, along with your minimal tank size to have constant water given an average monthly demand...

This rainfall calculator will work out what your expected 'rough' average monthly rainfall should be from the nearest measuring stations for which we have publicly usable data...