The climate record holds some of its best warnings in stone, soil, and leaves. In a new study, scientists from the University of Utah and the Colorado School of Mines looked back to one of Earth’s ...

A peer-reviewed study published in Nature Geoscience has found that during Earth’s most extreme ancient warming periods, ...

CLIMATEWIRE | At a tiny airport in the northwestern corner of Massachusetts, a weather station feeds precipitation data to a NOAA program that publishes the official precipitation estimates for most ...

PMP is currently defined in the United States as: Theoretically, the greatest depth of precipitation for a given duration that is physically possible over a given size storm area at a particular ...

Hurricane Helene crossed the Gulf of Mexico at a time when sea surface temperatures were at record highs and then barreled into a region where heavy rains had left the ground saturated. The result was ...

Typhoon Soudelor dropped over two feet of rainfall when it made landfall in China in early August, and soaked Taiwan. NASA estimated that rainfall using data from the Global Precipitation Measurement ...

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Over eight days of wild weather in June, the realities of a changing climate grabbed the nation by its shoulders and shook. In Michigan, a deluge dropped 7 inches of rain in Detroit, swamping highways ...