Snow can’t slide until it has fallen on a mountain, so the weather that creates snow is just as important to causing avalanches as any other factor. Simply put, an avalanche begins as snowflakes in ...

A slow-moving, blockbuster storm is likely to bring the biggest snowfall in decades to parts of the Front Range of the Rockies and western Plains states this weekend, possibly challenging all-time ...

Looking at the precipitation and aerosol map, a general pattern for the 2001 can be found. For aerosol concentrations, Richmond and Port Moody have the highest values. On the other hand, North ...

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 ...