Explore weather dynamics from the 1950s! Learn about cold & warm air masses, front formation, and precipitation. An educational look at meteorology.

Precipitation comes in all forms: rain, sleet, freezing rain, and snow. Some even count virga, which becomes a gas and evaporates before it reaches us as raindrops.

Using a 40% probability of rain as an example, it does not mean (1) that 40% of the area will be covered by precipitation at given time in the given forecast area or (2) that you will be seeing ...

High future levels of extreme precipitation intensification are concentrated in: Alaska, Hawaii, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Maine, North Carolina, and Kentucky.

Extreme precipitation over land has increased over the wettest and driest regions and is likely to keep intensifying over the twenty-first century. This has key implications for dry regions, which ...