Precipitable water: The total depth of water that would result if all the water vapor in a column of air extending from the Earth’s surface upward to the “top” of the atmosphere were condensed out.

The term precipitable water is what the depth of all of moisture in the troposphere would be if it were condensed and deposited on the Earth’s surface. It is mathematically determined by integrating ...

Karl Braganza is the Head of the Climate Monitoring Section in the Bureau of Meteorology's Environment and Research Division. Karl Braganza does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding ...

While the Upper Ohio Valley is no stranger to heavy rainfall and flooding, the conditions that have been in place over the past couple of days have supercharged the atmosphere to produce some ...