18-08-31 Heavy rainfalls hit southern Chinas Guangdong Province over the past few days, waterlogging many cities, the provincial flood control headquarters said Friday. 最近几天以来，广东省遭暴雨袭击，多个城市内有积水。 Cities of Shantou, Huizhou and Shanwei...

14-12-08 Scientists may have solved a long-standing enigma known as the African Humid Period -- an intense increase in cumulative rainfall in parts of Africa that began after a long dry spell following the end of the last ice age and lasting nearly 10,000 ye...

13-11-29 Drivers on a rainy day regulate the speed of their windshield wipers according to rain intensity: faster in heavy rain and slower in light rain. This simple observation has inspired researchers from the University of Hanover in Germany to come up wi...

13-10-29 A new study offers an explanation for the extraordinary run of wet summers experienced by Britain and northwest Europe between 2007 and 2012. The study found that loss of Arctic sea ice shifts the jet stream further south than normal resulting in in...

13-04-03 One often ignored consequence of global climate change is that the Northern Hemisphere is becoming warmer than the Southern Hemisphere, which could significantly alter tropical precipitation（降水，沉淀） patterns, according to a new study by climat...

12-06-07 A geoengineering solution to climate change could lead to significant rainfall reduction in Europe and North America, a team of European scientists concludes. The researchers studied how models of Earth in a warm, CO2-rich world respond to an artifi...

12-02-27 A new study reports that the disintegration（瓦解，崩溃） of the Maya Civilization may have been related to relatively modest reductions in rainfall. The study was led by Professors Martn Medina-Elizalde of the Yucatan Center for Scientific Research...

11-01-03 System 98S is currently bringing rains and gusty winds（疾风，阵风） to the northwestern coast of Western Australia, and NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite spotted areas of moderate（稳健的，适度的） to heavy rainfall in the system...

10-09-02 NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, or TRMM satellite looked at the rate rain was falling in Hurricane Earl yesterday, and it was intense（强烈的，紧张的） . The TRMM satellite passed close to Hurricane Earl's position early on August 31 at...