The varied topography of the Western United States—a patchwork of valleys and mountains, basins and plateaus—results in minutely localized weather. Accordingly, snowfall forecasts for the mountain ...

The most commonly cited average is a 10-to-1 ratio. This means 10 inches of snowfall would melt down to equal one inch of liquid rain. However, officials at the National Weather Service caution that ...

CU Boulder researchers apply machine learning to snow hydrology in Colorado mountain drainage basins, finding a new way to accurately predict the availability of water Determining how much water is ...

The varied topography of the Western United States—a patchwork of valleys and mountains, basins and plateaus—results in minutely localized weather ...

AccuWeather meteorologists say Mother Nature is ready to flip a switch to turn on the lake-effect snow machine and unleash wintry conditions for areas surrounding the Great Lakes this week. A storm ...

EVANSTON, Ill. (CBS) -- It's a magic trick at which even Houdini would marvel. Stick snow in one end, and it comes out as water at the other. It's a melting machine is hard at work in the northern ...

Portions of Upstate New York are going to take a thumping over the next several days from the lake effect snow machine that is Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. The National Weather Service office in ...