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 ...

Flash floods resulting from extreme rainfall pose a major risk to people and infrastructure, especially in urban areas. Higher temperatures due to global climate change affect continuous rainfall and ...

Tropical rain can be heavy and lead to fast flooding ...

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Winter storms are powerful and can produce all types of precipitation. The most common is snow, but at times it also produces ice that can cause major travel problems and ...

Climate change is intensifying the variability of precipitation due to extreme daily and overall rainfall events. Awareness of the effects of these events is crucial for understanding the complex ...

A study says that the world is seeing more rain overall, but it's also getting drier. The confounding findings reveal a big problem.

Installation of weather stations by the research group (left: Yahaya Bashiru, right: Maxime Colin), with a thunderstorm cloud cluster approaching in the background on 21 July 2023, Bremen (Germany).