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Himachal reels under deadly cloudbursts and floods, as experts link rising extreme weather to climate change and fragile ...
Pune: Maharashtra may have recorded its wettest May in decades, but 19 out of 36 districts in the state are grappling with ...
Delhi-NCR has seen overcast skies but little rain due to several factors like insufficient moisture and landlocked geography.
Pune: The city and its surrounding areas experienced uneven rainfall distribution over the past 24 hours, with downpour in ...
Have you ever stood at the base of a mountain, looked up, and wondered why the weather above seems completely different from where you are ... Read more The post How Mountains Create Their Own Weather ...
One of Earth's wettest locations saw a staggering two-day rainfall total of nearly 100 inches on this day 30 years ago. Cherrapunji, India, recorded 98.15 inches of rain, or over 8 feet, from June ...
This is the dangerous moment that the Nujiang River turned into a raging torrent, triggering a powerful flash flood after days of relentless rainfall. On May 31, 2025, in Nujiang Lisu Autonomous ...
While episodes of heavy rain are often termed “cloudburst”, a cloudburst has a specific technical definition — rainfall of 10 cm or more in an hour, over a roughly 10 km x 10 km area. Cloudbursts are ...
With orographic lifting in play, mountain regions could continue to see natural boosts in snow accumulation even in the absence of major storm systems. The Western Slope is no stranger to fluctuating ...
In this paper, we develop a data-driven methodology to characterize the likelihood of orographic precipitation enhancement using sequences of weather radar images and a digital elevation model (DEM).