A lack of data from the Eastern Pacific Ocean makes it hard to project whether global warming will increase tropical...
By Nicholas Grondin, University of Tampa Hurricane Hilary headed for Mexico’s Baja peninsula as a powerful Category 4 storm, and...
By Riley Post, University of Iowa, The Conversation The arduous task of cleaning up from catastrophic flooding is underway across the Northeast after storms stretched the region’s flood control systems nearly to the breaking point. As rising global temperatures make...
As rising global temperatures shift snow to rain, mountains across the Northern Hemisphere will be hotspots for extreme rainfall events...
A new study suggests the threat of flooding rains, landslides and erosion has been underestimated, especially in high-elevation and snow-dominated...
Written by Bob Leamon, University of Maryland, Baltimore County This article was originally published at The Conversation. El Niño is officially here, and while it’s still weak right now, federal forecasters expect this global disrupter of worldwide weather patterns to...
DRI contributes to research concluding lower-elevation ski resorts could lose more than 70 percent of their natural snow supply By...
A new study shows the weather cycle packs a heavy financial punch. By Zoya Teirstein, Grist This story was originally...
Written by Robin Meadows What a relief last winter is finally over. In late December, California was hit by the first in a series of powerful storms called atmospheric rivers. These ribbons of extraordinarily wet air rush across the ocean...
Q&A with Chad Hecht, Research and Operations Meteorologist, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes, University of California, San Diego...
By NASA/JPL Like hurricane categories, a scale for atmospheric river storm severity could help communities around the globe compare and...
As storms get warmer and wetter, the state’s flood control system is struggling to keep up. By Jake Bittle, Grist This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. California is no stranger to big...
By Keith Musselman, University of Colorado Boulder, The Conversation Another round of powerful atmospheric rivers is hitting California, following storms...
From the American Geophysical Union Atmospheric rivers, which are long, narrow bands of water vapor, are becoming more intense and...
At the January meeting of the California Water Commission, Jeanine Jones took the commissioners through the history of past droughts and the lessons learned. As Division Chief for Interstate Resources Management at the California Department of Water Resources, Ms. Jones...