Going back through U.S. weather station records dating to 1955, Kunkel found that rain over the past 20 years has become more ...

A large increase in atmospheric methane between 2020 and 2022 raised concerns that tropical wetland emissions had surged in ...

Intense rain is falling more frequently in many areas of the U.S. — though where it occurs and whether it causes catastrophic ...

A daily mismatch between temperature and humidity, observed in certain mountain and waterside regions, helps regulate ...

In the wake of last week’s Texas floods that killed more than 100 people, a Post analysis found the number of U.S. freshwater ...

Thermal infrared (TIR) multispectral data over land can be atmospherically corrected by radiative transfer calculations combined with global assimilated data from a weather forecast system. This ...

Atmospheric rivers are long, narrow regions of water vapor in the atmosphere, like a river in the sky. These systems gather ...

A warmer atmosphere expands and has more room to hold more moisture. This means precipitating systems like thunderstorms and landfalling tropical systems will produce more extreme and damaging ...

By combining atmospheric river forecast information with knowledge of how close the soil moisture is to critical saturation levels for a given watershed, we can further improve flood early warning ...

The eastern Pacific Ocean has spawned a new tropical storm, Dalila, which will swipe southern Mexico with flooding downpours and gusty winds. Meanwhile, the Atlantic basin remains dormant for now ...

That stability is no small thing – about 60 percent of the world’s fresh water is locked up in the Antarctic Ice Sheet. If all of it were to melt, there’d be a 70-meter (230-foot) rise in ...