The 24-hour rainfall surpassed the previous record set in Ashland County nearly 80 years ago by about three inches.

A warmer atmosphere can hold more water, which makes it more likely moisture-laden clouds will drop rainfall bombs when they burst. Texas hill country. Central North Carolina. New Mexico. Chicago.

A major Pineapple Express storm could deliver one of Southern California’s stormiest Christmases in recent memory. The strong atmospheric river storm is expected to bring “copious amounts of rain ...

Rainfall at Bach Ma peak in Hue has reached a staggering 1,739 millimeters in 24 hours, the highest ever recorded in Vietnam and the second-largest daily total in the world, behind only a 1966 record ...