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In the southern Blue Ridge Mountains, Helene’s rain was enhanced by the terrain and what’s known as orographic uplift. When a storm is forced to rise up a mountainside, the air cools and ...

Parts of eastern and southern Spain are now dealing with the aftermath of historic and deadly flooding at the hands of a ...

“A couple spots could see up to a foot of rain – not out of the question, especially when you talk about the mountains and the orographic lift across parts of southern Mexico,” Minar said.

Hobbs Lecture Award. Dynamics and microphysics of orographic precipitation. We have been taking the UW King Air with radar and lidar over Wyoming mountain ranges since 2006, to study natural ...

Kelly's news and science background has taken her many places: from forecasting orographic lifting snow in the Carolina Mountains, working for NASA, calibrating rain gauges in the Great Smoky ...

A final WWMPP report (Rasmussen 2014) and a host of published observational and numerical modelling studies, supported by the UW Water Research Program and the National Science Foundation, indicate ...

But that is how it is with showers, hit and miss. Plus with incoming storms rainfall is orographic in nature. As onshore winds reach our foothills, the air rises and cools and precipitation increases.