That's exactly what's happening with drought: the atmosphere is demanding more water than the land can afford to lose. As the planet warms, this demand grows—drawing more moisture from soils, rivers, ...

Hot air holds more moisture. That’s why you can blow your hair dry even after a steamy shower. It’s also what dumps rain in the tropics and sucks water from desert soils. A new study, published in ...

The water is moved over the ocean in the form of water vapor, not a "river" in the way we think of them on land. They tend to move through the atmosphere in streams between 250 and 375 miles wide.

The area eventually moved into record-breaking levels of moisture starting the morning of June 17. On June 17 at 8 a.m., 1.83 inches of precipitable water was observed breaking the 1984 8 a.m ...

Because we will have a high PWAT environment in place, say on the order of 2” or so that will mean the atmosphere has 2” give or take of moisture available to fall as rain, most of it heavily.

Rapid return of water from ground to atmosphere through plants. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 11, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 01 / 250109183329.htm. Chapman University.

The process of AED describes how much water the atmosphere wants from the surface. The hotter, sunnier, windier and drier the air is, the more water it requires – even if there isn't less rain.

The process of AED describes how much water the atmosphere wants from the surface. The hotter, sunnier, windier and drier the air is, the more water it requires—even if there isn't less rain.

Hot air holds more moisture. That’s why you can blow your hair dry even after a steamy shower. It’s also what dumps rain in the tropics and sucks water from desert soils. A new study, published in ...