Climate change is making rainfall harder to predict, as shifting wind patterns challenge climate models and increase ...

A new study led by the University of Oxford and ETH Zurich reveals that a key part of the climate system—the large-scale wind ...

Attribution researches the influence of climate change on local weather and impacts. We issues alerts in many instances when the Climate Shift Index identifies a notable extreme weather event around ...

A raging flood pulled a family's home of more than 50 years into the Blue Earth River in southern Minnesota this week, as a community watched in horror. The river’s water flow had tripled in three ...

Rainfall fluctuates more vigorously. Why? Scientists say it's because of us. Many people around the world have noticed that rainfall is becoming increasingly erratic. Intense downpours are occurring ...

It's no secret that Phoenix is hot, but late summer and the start of fall were scorchers, even by Valley of the Sun standards. Between Sept. 23 and Oct. 14, Phoenix set daily record high temperatures ...

David Easterling, a NOAA climate scientist, didn’t think much about the rainfall forecast until his wife called him on the evening of Tuesday, Sept. 24, asking whether he’d seen the weather outlook.

TOLEDO, Ohio — In the wake of recent catastrophic flooding in central Texas that claimed over 120 lives, many are beginning to examine the broader climate-related trends contributing to these ...