It's not the highest mountain in our region, but Lookout Pass Ski and Recreation Area is prominent nonetheless. On the crest ...

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 ...

They made some life-saving judgment calls, preemptively closing bridges and prepping communities for evacuation, but area ...

There are several scientific theories on why this area saw double digits of rain in a four day stretch, one being the ...

In Australia’s big cities, we tend to take our water for granted. How does it get to us – and could we ever run out?

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

In 2001, Drew Guswa joined the faculty at Smith College to help launch the Picker Engineering Program—the first engineering program at an all-women’s college. In 2009, he was named as the founding ...

The hurricane is the third-deadliest hurricane of the modern era (behind Maria and Katrina) with a death toll of over 200, ...

The challenge of forecasting extreme events across Ecuador is the focus for Angela Iza Wong, from the Ecuador ...

“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.

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 ...