Clouds floating over withered crops and desiccated soil hold millions of tonnes of water that could nourish the land and replenish our wells. What if humans could force those clouds to produce rain ...

The Fundamental Water Cycle Process Water moves between pools through evaporation into water vapor, transport through the atmosphere, condensation to form clouds, and returns to the surface as ...

The Convective Precipitation Experiment (COPE) documented the dynamical and microphysical evolution of convection in southwestern England for testing and improving quantitative precipitation ...

METROMEX was the first major field program aimed at studying the reality and causes of urban rainfall anomalies suggested in several climatological studies. The results from the 1971–74 METROMEX data ...

random weather question surfaces in the KQED newsroom, to wit: “A member of my household (OK, my husband) would like to know why do some parts of the Bay Area always get more rain than others? We get ...

The widespread, lush rain forests that cover the southwestern region of the Olympic Mountains already provide an easy clue that it rains quite a bit there -- the Olympic Rain Forest is home to the ...