Scientists Seek Better Way to Measure Rain
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Meteorologists at North Carolina State University are working on a way to more accurately measure rainfall in small areas.
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The forecasters who predicted this summer's rain expect one of the coldest winters on record - but the Met Office is not so sure.
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Severe flooding caused by torrential rains stretching across Africa is probably linked to the &quot;La Nina&quot; weather pattern thousands of mile away in the Pacific, a senior UN weather agency scientist said Thursday.
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Some wonder whether this month will break the single-month record for rainfall in Seattle, 15.33 inches, set in December 1933.
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Scientists using data from planes flying into a large hurricane have documented changes inside these swirling storms that can quickly alter their intensity, and say these insights can improve forecasting.
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Scientists pored over data and wracked their brains Tuesday to determine the cause of a frenzied pace of tiny earthquakes at Mount St.
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Blog: Some wet areas of earth will get wetter with climate change.
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In hopes of better predicting Arizona's mysterious monsoon storms, a team of 20 university and government researchers has identified two factors that commonly cause the events.
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The government's chief scientist says UK must prepare for heatwaves and torrential rain.
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NASA scientists are teaming with researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to monitor Lake Erie's harmful algae blooms, a move that could lead to early warnings for beachgoers and water departments.
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The National Science Board urges the feds to bolster efforts to understand hurricanes. Despite huge storm-related losses, NOAA staffing is down 30 percent and the focus is on short-term forecasting, according to the report.
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From the deserts of the American southwest to the pine forests of the Deep South, drought-weary residents have one thing on their minds: &quot;I wish it would rain!&quot; Technically, what they should be wishing for is &quot;more streamflow.&quot;  Find out why in today's story.
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Urban air pollution may be reducing rainfall in the Central Valley and along the heavily populated southern California coast, while trimming mountain snowfall that supplies much of the state's drinking and irrigation water and hydroelectric power, a Stanford University professor's study released Thursday shows.
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To help create warning systems to detect catastrophic events such as the tsunamis in south Asia, scientific research needs adequate support.
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Researchers are hoping to develop a network of ocean-floor and mobile sensors that would help detect tsunamis in the Indian and Pacific oceans.
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Weather forecasting just isn't what it used to be. With thousands of satellites orbiting Earth, with astronauts living in the international space station and perhaps venturing later to the moon and Mars, and with nations utterly dependent on space-based assets for their communications, navigation and spying, those responsible for the safety of all these moving parts need to know about a whole new world of weather conditions. ...
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By Ian Hoffman, STAFF WRITER  SACRAMENTO -- Scientists say bits of air pollution as small as a thousandth of a hair's width appear to be reducing rain and snowfall in the Sierra, Cascades and Rockies, potentially adding to threats of water shortages tied to global warming.