As communities in the central US grapple with widespread devastation from a line of deadly storms that spawned dozens of ...

After floods devastate Congo, scientists say climate change is making heavier rains more likely and call for better data to ...

Extreme rainfall events can cause devastating floods, landslides, and widespread damage, yet predicting them remains a major challenge. While scientists often study how often and how intensely it ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

The extreme flooding across parts of the South and Midwest was caused by a stalled storm system that hovered over the same ...

To overcome this problem, thresholds based on percentile values can also be defined. The 27 extreme temperature and rainfall indices used here are based on those defined by the WMO Expert Team on ...

The South and Ohio Valley will continue to be pummeled by a particularly dangerous flooding event from multiple bouts of extreme rainfall as well as severe weather that could spawn strong tornadoes ...

Heavy short-term rainfall events are becoming more intense. Observations show an increase in the intensity of heavy rainfall events in Australia. The intensity of short-duration extreme rainfall ...

Extreme weather is complicating efforts to provide relief for hundreds of thousands of people displaced by the March 28 earthquake in Myanmar, as the death toll from the disaster exceeded 3,600.

Rainfall totals are projected to be so extreme that forecasters are using statistical terms, such as 1-in-25-year, 1-in-100-year, and even 1-in-1000-year events, to describe their rarity.