Lindsay Okarmus, who works for the Central Park Conservancy, measures snowfall in the park. She loves winter storms.

The National Weather Service relies partially on volunteers and the general public to provide snowfall measurements. Here's ...

When measuring freezing rain, you'll need a ruler or a measuring tape. Find an ice-covered object. You may notice the ice is ...

Measuring ice totals from freezing rain is one of the trickiest measurements to take because ice does not coat the surfaces of objects evenly.

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Proxies in the fossil record Since it is not possible to measure precipitation that occurred millions of years ago, scientists examine evidence in the geologic record to draw conclusions about ancient ...

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 ...

The Christmas Eve storm that brought steady rain Wednesday was a record-setter. The storm, which will deliver more scattered showers Thursday, produced hours of rainfall that started in the early ...

High winds and dumping rain marked the start of the Christmas holiday across the Sacramento Valley and Northern California. Overnight, a strong atmospheric river system moved into California, ...

An ancient lake that dried up approximately 130,000 years ago has reemerged after record rainfall in California’s Death Valley, arguably the hottest place on Earth. Lake Manly was formed during the ...

An ancient lake that thrived during the last Ice Age has reemerged in California's Death Valley National Park, after a record spell of rainfall hit the area, the National Park Service said. Informally ...

The basin was once a lake with depths of up to 700 feet. An ancient lake that once existed at Death Valley National Park has reemerged after record rainfall in the region. Several inches of water have ...