After months of extremely dry conditions in Southern California, an atmospheric river storm delivered much-needed rain to a region plagued by wildfires in January. Scattered showers fell across the ...

Impact from a moisture-laden storm is expected to persist in the San Francisco Bay Area through Friday, with more rain likely ...

The rain will be "generally beneficial" in the Los Angeles area, but there is a small risk of burn scar debris flows.

Precipitation starts up in the atmosphere in a warmer layer (above freezing) in the atmosphere, causing it to be rain. Before ...

The rainy or wet season ... latitude, owing to the present division of seasons, the atmosphere is divided into two kinds, wet and dry. It may be said, however, that the coast wind is more or ...

The end of the rainy (Baiu) season in the Kanto region and northern Japan is induced by a "convection jump," known as the abrupt enhancement of convective activity (precipitation) over the northeast ...

THIS COOLING CAN CHANGE WHERE RAINY PATTERNS SET UP ON THE WEST COAST. THESE COOLER WATERS CAN AFFECT WHERE WATER OR WHERE AIR RISES INTO THE ATMOSPHERE, AND THAT AFFECTS WEATHER PATTERNS.

The abrupt enhancement of convective activity (precipitation) over the northeast of the Philippines in late July, known as the "convection jump," is closely related to the end of the rainy season in ...