Imagine trying to predict wind patterns as air flows across a landscape. It's a straightforward task over a flat plain—but ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KKCO) - Orographic lifting contributes to the snowpack in a way that differs from a typical storm ...

ABSTRACT A diagnostic precipitation model that combines linear theory of hydrostatic flow with parameterized microphysics is applied to several stratiform heavy precipitation events over the low ...

Hurricane Helene is now in the records of one of the most deadly storms to hit the United States in the last 50 years and the majority of the death toll so far comes from flooding and the resulting ...

The Big Bog, the rainiest spot in Hawai‘i, sits at an elevation of 5,400 feet, where it catches the prevailing northeast-east trade winds as they rise up the windward slope of Haleakalā and drop their ...

ABSTRACT An object-based evaluation method is applied to the simulated orographic precipitation for the idealized experimental setups using the National Center of Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Community ...

A winter storm warning remains in effect until 7 p.m. this evening for southern Franklin, southeastern St. Lawrence and western Clinton counties as snowfall totals of up to 18 inches are forecast.

There is a lot of talk surrounding tropical systems and how rainfall is even more severe in mountainous terrain. This is because of a phenomenon called orographic lift. Orographic lift occurs when ...