Japan is an archipelago with diverse climate zones and complex topography that is prone to heavy rain and flooding. Add the growing effects of global warming. These disaster risks are heightened with ...

Metro Phoenix enjoyed some cool weather on Presidents' Day with cloudy skies and light rain through the night. The weather forecast for the week of Feb. 16 started cool with a high of 68 degrees on ...

A storm delivered rain overnight in Southern California, marking the region's first rainfall in more than a month. The weak system arrived Tuesday night and brought light to moderate rain into the ...

*Don’t see your area? More local rainfall totals can be found here. A Flood Advisory remains in effect for the San Diego River at Fashion Valley, meaning elevated waters levels are expected.

A storm that arrived on New Year's Eve delivered hours of rainfall overnight and into early Thursday morning in Southern California. Rainfall reached it peak in the early hours of 2026, drenching the ...

The National Weather Service updated their 48-hour rainfall totals for the ongoing Southern California atmospheric river storm on Thursday morning. Several locations across the region had already ...

New research shows that crops are far more vulnerable when too much rainfall originates from land rather than the ocean. Land-sourced moisture leads to weaker, less reliable rainfall, heightening ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Between 128,000 and 186,000 years ago, when ice covered the Sierra Nevada, a lake 100 miles long and 600 feet deep ...

Thunderstorms rumbled across North Texas Sunday, spawning alerts from the National Weather Service and sometimes bringing blinding rain. NWS said Wichita Falls officially received .77-inch of rain ...

Parts of Iowa saw roughly half an inch of rainfall and some scattered thunderstorms to start the week. Northern and northwestern Iowa had the highest rainfall totals, with the most rain falling in ...