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

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 ...

Showers in northwestern Montana have produced quite a bit of rain, with some locations seeing 0.75-1.0 inch of rain per hour.

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

Snow Most precipitation that forms in wintertime clouds starts out as snow because the top layer of the storm is usually cold enough to create snowflakes. Snowflakes are just collections of ice ...