The Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC) has predicted heavy rains in Nilgiris, Ghat areas of Coimbatore and southern ...

Mumbai woke up to a sodden Monday morning, May 26, as the southwest monsoon barreled into the city nearly 15 to 16 days ahead ...

Overall, mostly dry and sunny conditions can be expected with winds gusting up to 20 MPH.

But that is how it is with showers, hit and miss. Plus with incoming storms rainfall is orographic in nature. As onshore winds reach our foothills, the air rises and cools and precipitation increases.

There are several scientific theories on why this area saw double digits of rain in a four day stretch, one being the orographic effect. The orographic effect occurs when air masses are forced to ...

Afrifa, Francis Osei Tutu, 2024: A Case Study of Cold-season Emergent Orographic Convection and its Impact on Precipitation. Part 1: Mesoscale Analysis. University of ...

The remnants of Hurricane Helene were not the only factor that contributed to the severity of the flooding that struck the mountain community of Asheville, North Carolina. Several conditions in ...