With rising temperatures, the atmosphere can hold more moisture, meaning precipitation has a tendency to fall at more extreme ...

A major storm took hold across swaths of the central and southern United States on Wednesday unleashing extreme flooding and huge tornadoes from Arkansas up to Michigan. And conditions are expected to ...

The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for the southwest of England on Friday, covering tourist hotspots ...

After floods devastate Congo, scientists say climate change is making heavier rains more likely and call for better data to ...

Atmospheric instability has two components: rising air and wind shear, which is created as wind speed changes with height.

The extreme flooding across parts of the South and Midwest was caused by a stalled storm system that hovered over the same ...

Rainfall rates can hit multiple inches an hour during slow-moving thunderstorms or in tropical storms and hurricanes. But the U.S. record one hour rainfall you might think is big enough to be ...

Easter engineering works are set to disrupt train services across Britain, impacting passengers travelling over the bank ...

Weather experts say it is not unusual for a cyclone to be making waves at this time of year but warn ex-tropical Cyclone Tam ...

Climate change has made South Florida’s rainy, heat and hurricane seasons all much more dangerous. When it comes to rain, we are seeing more and more frequent intense rainfalls; a larger amount of ...

NEW DELHI, April 11 (Reuters) - More than 100 people have died since Wednesday after unseasonably heavy rain lashed parts of India and Nepal, officials said, as the weather department predicted ...