A superhuman effort by an army of volunteers during the UK's first COVID-19 lockdown has resulted in 5.2 million rainfall observations, recorded by hand on paper sheets now stored in the Met Office ...

In March 2020, as the United Kingdom went into pandemic lockdown, climate scientist Ed Hawkins put out a call to people with time on their hands: He needed help turning nearly 350 years’ worth of ...

Observation data analysis reveals a 90-fold increase in the frequency of monthly heat extremes, so-called 3-sigma-events that deviate strongly from what is normal in a given region, in the past ten ...

Hurricane Beryl dumped several inches of water across the Greater Houston area as it tore through town on Monday. Heavy rains flooded bayous and inundated roadways, causing emergency officials to ...

As Britain went into its first Covid lockdown, a scientist asked for help transcribing rainfall records spanning three centuries. Thousands of people online answered the call. By Raymond Zhong Britain ...

Privacy-by-design decentralised data monetisation platform Rainfall has announced a $1m pre-seed investment round led by Charly Kleissner, co-founder Toniic, Katapult ...

With extreme rainfall events showing a disturbing rising streak, the number of rainy days with very heavy and exceptionally heavy rainfall has increased worrisomely by more than 100%, the Goa State ...

NEW DELHI: Second half of the monsoon season (Aug-Sept) is most likely to receive ‘above normal’ rainfall over the country as a whole, barring a few regional exceptions, the IMD said on ...