Unusually dry air is forecast to move in by Saturday and Sunday. Current models suggest precipitable water values could drop ...

A clash of air masses on Wednesday will result in the threat of severe storms from Milwaukee and Chicago westward to Denver and the eastern Rockies.

Muggy, hot weather is expected to stay in Massachusetts on Tuesday as the state could see another round of thunderstorms that ...

The area eventually moved into record-breaking levels of moisture starting the morning of June 17. On June 17 at 8 a.m., 1.83 inches of precipitable water was observed breaking the 1984 8 a.m ...

Meteorologists use 'precipitable water' to help predict whether or not the weather will be more conducive to heavy downpours and potential flooding.

More storms are ahead, and more heavy rain chances as we head from Thursday morning into the weekend. Western Iowa is in a slight risk for severe storms late tonight and ...

Precipitable water measures the amount of water vapor in a column of the atmosphere, showing how much rain could fall if all ...

Precipitable water indicates the amount of moisture in the atmosphere above a fixed location. It isn’t used to predict how much rain will fall, but rather how much moisture is in the air.

C. Fischer, C. Iserlohe, W. Vacca, D. Fadda, S. Colditz, N. Fischer, A. Krabbe, Probing the Atmospheric Precipitable Water Vapor with SOFIA, Part I, Measurements of ...

Precipitable water, by definition, is how much moisture resides in a column of air in the atmosphere. It’s measured in inches, and is basically the amount of liquid that can be condensed out of ...