Measuring the amount of precipitation that falls in a specific location is simple if that location has a device designed to accurately record and transmit precipitation data. In contrast, measuring ...

To ensure accurate precipitation measurements, the NWS has established guidelines for measuring and reporting snow and sleet totals and converting them into liquid equivalents. Measuring precipitation ...

For more than a week the weather over the continental United States has been punctuated by extreme events. NASA analyzed satellite data that measured the heavy precipitation over ten days from late ...

The National Weather Service (NWS) is the authority when it comes to weather measurement and reporting. To ensure accurate precipitation measurements, the NWS has established guidelines for measuring ...

Diamond Dickson was born in Houston, TX and comes from our sister station in Bryan/Waco/College Station where she served as a morning anchor, MMJ and producer. She joins KRIS 6 as a Meteorologist. On ...

The book "Meteorologica" was written by Aristotle in 340 B.C. about the different types of precipitation. Yet there is no mention of the actual measurement of rain or snow. It would take well over ...

During the presidential campaign, Barack Obama said he would work to launch "without further delay" the Global Precipitation Measurement mission, "an international effort to improve climate, weather, ...

Rainfall measurement unit: Whenever you see weather reports, you may have noticed that they mention rainfall in millimeters, a unit that many people hear daily but do not fully understand. However, ...