2023 saw a multitude of extreme precipitation events across the globe, causing flash flooding, countless fatalities and huge economic losses. Fuelled by a combination of a strong El Niño, record ocean ...

In the last 100 years, more than 40 studies have attempted to quantify the global water cycle budget 1. This is no surprise because, despite the challenges in robustly estimating the amount of water ...

Precipitation comes in all forms: rain, sleet, freezing rain, and snow. Some even count virga, which becomes a gas and evaporates before it reaches us as raindrops. Hail also exists but forms ...

With the increase in climate change, global precipitation estimates have become a necessity for predicting water-related disasters like floods and droughts, as well as for managing water resources.

Forecasting wintry precipitation is a challenge. Knowing how we get rain, ice or snow takes an understanding of the vertical profile of the atmosphere. You not only need to know the temperature at the ...

In research that could improve weather forecasting and winter driving safety, a University of Michigan-led study distinguished nine distinct precipitation types—varieties of rain, snow and mixed-phase ...

DENVER (KDVR) — You have likely watched the news and seen the meteorologist show a percent chance of precipitation on the seven-day forecast. But what does that actually mean? Most people assume that ...

Climate change is altering patterns of precipitation in the Mid-Atlantic region, resulting in more intense flooding and droughts. The region is projected to have an increase in the amount of annual ...

Human activities, such as burning fossil fuels for transportation and electricity, have worsened the intensity of extreme rainfall and snowfall over land in recent decades, not just in a few areas but ...

For years, social media users have been lecturing one another about what percentages mean in weather forecasts. "Y'all know on the weather app the percentage isn't a "chance" of rain. It means it will ...

About two-thirds of the U.S. is in some stage of drought in late spring 2026, yet at the same time the country has been seeing more intense downpours. It might seem contradictory, but both are ...