A rain gauge in Porto Bello, Panama, saw 2.47” of rainfall in 3 minutes on November 29, 1911.

There is a lot of talk surrounding tropical systems and how rainfall is even more severe in mountainous terrain. This is because of a phenomenon called orographic lift. Orographic lift occurs when ...

Orographic thunderstorms are common in the U.S, occurring in areas where moisture-laden winds are forced upward as they encounter mountain ranges. While the vast majority of these storms are not ...

The breaking of orographic gravity waves induces a zonal wave drag in the middle troposphere, which destroys the geostrophic balance of the large-scale westerly flow and thus drives an ageostrophic ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) - Orographic lifting contributes to the snowpack in a way that differs from a typical storm system. Tom Renwick, Meteorologist for the National Weather Service, said, “If ...

For more than 75 years, high-hazard structures in the United States, including dams and nuclear power plants, have been engineered to withstand floods resulting from the most unlikely but possible ...