The NEXT Weather team breaks down four types of precipitation and what conditions create each one.

Scientists know that urbanization and irrigation can significantly influence rainfall. However, they don’t fully know how these effects vary among different types of rain. Researchers investigated how ...

Julie sent a note asking how we know if rain will be just plain rain or a thunderstorm. That's a good question and it all has to do with the stability of the air. On a day when the atmosphere is ...

Heavy rainfall and strong wind are the two main sources of disasters that are caused by tropical cyclones (TCs), and typhoons with different characteristics may induce different agricultural losses.

Flash floods resulting from extreme rainfall pose a major risk to people and infrastructure, especially in urban areas. Higher temperatures due to global climate change affect continuous rainfall and ...

Climate change may lead to more precipitation and more intense floods. A new study shows that to understand the details of this relationship, it is important to distinguish between different types of ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — In any given forecast for Middle Tennessee in the winter, you might see frozen rain, sleet or snow. Realistically, though, what do those terms even mean? News 2’s Weather ...