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“this year is a lesson in why we can never know for certain what our water picture will look like until we get to the end of our traditional wet season.” Readers around the Lake Tahoe Basin ...

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Observations of Jupiter show that ammonia is unevenly distributed in the upper atmosphere, against expectations of uniform mixing. Scientists found evidence for a complicated but apparently real ...

A bizarre hailstorm of icy “mushballs” — slushy mixtures of ammonia and water — has been confirmed on Jupiter, where intense ...

When enough water droplets form and cluster together, a puffy cloud forms. But how do the water droplets get there?

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Atmospheric rivers are more common during the winter months, but officials are warning people not to let their guard down.

Weather on Jupiter may have some surprising similarities to Earth phenomena, but some things it does defy easy explanation.