As the summer heat builds over North America, a region of high pressure forms over the U.S. Southwest, and the wind becomes more southerly, bringing moisture from the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of California. This circulation brings thunderstorms and rainfall to the monsoon region, providing mu...
A cold front is bringing the first widespread rainfall of the season in the Bay Area on Veterans Day, with another round of wet weather expected later this week. According to the National Weather Service, the main rain band has reached the San Francisco Bay region Mo...
The combination of steep topography, highly erodible rock and soil, and wildfire, coupled with intense rainfall, can initiate PFDFs even in cases of relatively small storm rainfall totals. This study identifies common atmospheric conditions during which damaging PFDFs occur in the Transverse Ranges ...
Fig. 3: Simulated regional pollen seasonal magnitude and timing in the historical and future. a–fTwenty-year average time series of daily pollen emission flux (grains m−2 d−1) of the six dominant individual tree taxa in the deciduous broadleaf forest (DBL) and the total DBL emissio...
gases causing tropical circulation changes and more water vapour in the atmosphere. Kossin says hurricanes are continuously bringing unprecedented rainfall totals and cites Hurricane Harvey as a “notable example of the relationship between regional rainfall amounts and tropi...
For most inland and coastal valleys, between 1/2 and 1 inch of rainfall are predicted through Sunday night, with slightly higher totals expected in San Diego County. The incoming storm has prompted the National Weather Service to issue Winter Storm Warnings for the mountains and a Flash Flood ...
Hurricane Irene hit land in North Carolina before moving up the East Coast, affecting eight other states, perhaps none more so than Vermont. The true beast of the Category 1 hurricane was its torrential rainfall that caused mass flooding.Vermont saw more than 11 inches of rainand more than $...
Hurricane Irene hit land in North Carolina before moving up the East Coast, affecting eight other states, perhaps none more so than Vermont. The true beast of the Category 1 hurricane was its torrential rainfall that caused mass flooding.Vermont saw more than 11 inches of rainand more than $...
Though Hurricane Florence made landfall as a Category 1 storm, it was slow-moving and large and produced intense wind and rain damage to the Carolinas. Florence brought forth 100 mph winds, storm surges as high as nine to 13 feet, and 20 to 35 inches of rain. Theamount of rainfall was...
Hurricane Irene hit land in North Carolina before moving up the East Coast, affecting eight other states, perhaps none more so than Vermont. The true beast of the Category 1 hurricane was its torrential rainfall that caused mass flooding.Vermont saw more than 11 inches of rainand more than $...