Why does 2 inches of rain in an hour sometimes produce a flood, and other times doesn't? It comes down to the way the ground absorbs water, and the science behind it is how we forecast flood risk.

Heavy rains are expected to cause flooding in Southwest Missouri and Northwest Arkansas due to the recent "flash drought" and ...

Which animals do you make a point to see? You'll find excitable otters in the "North American Wilderness" exhibit, and the ...

A map shared by the NWS on Facebook showed a broad corridor of flash-flood risk spanning the Western states and Southern Plains. The agency highlighted heavy rainfall as the primary threat and warned ...

The Central Texas floods should be a similar wake-up call. Hill Country needs its own version of FIRST. At the relatively paltry cost of $1-2 million, Gov. Greg Abbott could fund it right now through ...

On August 5, a cloudburst near the Kheer Ganga river triggered a flash flood that tore through Dharali, a village in the ...

Flash floods and landslides in Jammu and Kashmir highlight increasing extreme weather in India's Himalayas, linked to climate ...

The National Weather Service has extended its flash flood warning for large portions of southeast Wisconsin as torrential rainfall it's labeling as "life threatening flash flooding" continued ...

Flood Watches were effect for much of Georgia and southern South Carolina, including Charleston, which Friday broke its daily rainfall record set in 2008. The city received 4.16 inches of rain, of ...