They made some life-saving judgment calls, preemptively closing bridges and prepping communities for evacuation, but area ...

The hurricane is the third-deadliest hurricane of the modern era (behind Maria and Katrina) with a death toll of over 200, ...

In Australia’s big cities, we tend to take our water for granted. How does it get to us – and could we ever run out?

This phenomenon, known as the Orographic Effect, plays a significant role in the region’s high rainfall. The rainfall is often so relentless that residents may confined indoors for up to an ...

“A couple spots could see up to a foot of rain – not out of the question, especially when you talk about the mountains and the orographic lift across parts of southern Mexico,” Minar said.

But that is how it is with showers, hit and miss. Plus with incoming storms rainfall is orographic in nature. As onshore winds reach our foothills, the air rises and cools and precipitation increases.

Parts of eastern and southern Spain are now dealing with the aftermath of historic and deadly flooding at the hands of a ...

This helped enhance the high moisture of Helene, bringing catastrophic rainfall and flooding to areas in the southeast, thanks to orographic lift. Atlanta, Georgia, had its first ever Flash Flood ...