The rain gauge is one of the oldest weather instruments in history. Discover how its design and uses have transformed over the years.

CENTRAL FLORIDA — Persistent rainfall sparked flooding in parts of Volusia and Brevard counties on Friday, with some areas of Volusia recording rain accumulations of up to 8 inches, and localized ...

If you’ve started using Waze maps to find your way around, you might have noticed a bunch of tiny icons on the map. Whether ...

SUNDAY MORNING, WE’RE WATCHING THAT COLD FRONT START TO BARREL ITS WAY TOWARDS THE UPSTATE AND WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA, STRETCHING FROM ATLANTA, HEADING NORTHWARD TO KNOXVILLE, WE’RE SEEING SOME ...

Cleanup efforts were underway Wednesday across Southern California following a rare October storm that brought significant rain to the region. There had been concerns of mud flows in the burn scar ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A rare October storm pummeled parts of Southern California with heavy rain and strong winds Tuesday, threatening wildfire-scarred neighborhoods with the possibility of mudslides and ...

Amy Graff is a San Francisco-based reporter on The Times’s weather team. Jesus Jiménez reported from Los Angeles. Oct. 13, 2025 A storm that was delivering an unusual amount of rain for October had ...

DANCE MOVES. THEY’RE SO TALENTED. WELL, TURNING NOW TO METEOROLOGIST HEATHER WALDMAN HEATHER, WE’VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THE STORM SYSTEM. WHERE IS THE STORM SYSTEM AT RIGHT NOW AND WHAT ARE WE SEEING?

An early-season storm sweeping through Northern California dropped more than an inch of rain in some parts of the Sacramento region, according to the National Weather Service. Moisture from Tropical ...

A nor’easter dumped rain and brought damaging gusty winds across eastern Massachusetts Monday, according to National Weather Service data, with storm conditions set to continue but taper off Tuesday. ...

In about 15 minutes, Tempe recorded nearly three-quarters of an inch of rain. A supercell thunderstorm forms when wind speed and direction change with height, a phenomenon called wind shear.