Droughts and floods are becoming more frequent and more severe across the globe. The cause is often rain - either too little ...

Currently, without rain gauges or radar there many communities don't have any way to accurately measure rainfall. This can be a serious problem in regions where flooding, monsoons, or landslides ...

MOLINE, Ill. — Most of us have a rain gauge of some sort sitting in the yard that gives us an idea of how much or how little moisture fell from the sky during a storm. Often times when it rains ...

A long-time viewer emailed me earlier this week with a puzzle: he had two rain gauges side-by-side during our recent storm, but they measured a different amount of rain. Here's how it happens.

NASA will decommission the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) later this year. A highly successful scientific research mission, TRMM has provided data used worldwide in the monitoring and ...

In 2010, CoCoRaHS became a nationwide volunteer network and is now international, with observers providing crucial ...

Precipitation readings in the northern and southern Sierra Nevada jumped above the 50-year average, and the central Sierra’s are expected to do the same soon.

We can measure rainfall totals in several ways, such as storm total, which is what we see out of one storm. Or we can report on how much rainfall we’ve received over a 24-hour period.