Columbia, SC (WLTX) - There’s another March Madness going on, but it’s not played by basketball players; it’s between meteorologists and climatologists. Every March, State Climatologists and National ...

Did you know that, on average, May and June are two of the top three wettest months on average for the Brazos Valley? You can thank an active weather pattern that sets up over the Lone Star State each ...

Whenever it rains, the first question to come to mind is, “How much did we get?” To help you find the answer in your own yard, let’s make a rain gauge. All we need for supplies is a two liter bottle, ...

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Rain gauges are some of the most basic yet necessary tools used to measure weather today. It was created in 1441 for agricultural purposes. Centuries later, the rain gauge is still widely used to ...

Today's story comes from a long-time viewer. He set up two rain gauges side-by-side but measured a different amount of rain in each. He wanted to know which one is accurate and how to choose a good ...

It isn’t that hard to make an electronic rain gauge if you have a steady source of power or you don’t mind changing batteries often. But [Matthew Ford] offers a third option: a simple device with a ...

KENTUCKY (WKYT) - Kentucky rain gauges were put to good use Tuesday, but one viewer had a question about how meteorologists can be so precise with their measurements. For today’s Good Question, Karl ...

I heard the other day that the airport got a trace of rain. Who lives at the airport? At the same time, we had a cloudburst in my neighborhood. This points to an embarrassing problem. Weather bureau ...

You know it’s coming. You don’t get through spring without hearing the question a couple of times. And while it’s fun to be able to answer, “Seven-sixteenths of an inch,” that’s not the only benefit ...

It looks as if the rainy season is here, and maybe it will stay for a while. Summer rainstorms never quite materialized last year and that's a major reason our water resources are in such bad shape ...