PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – In our previous lesson, we discussed the process of our water cycle. We now have a general idea of how water goes from the ocean, to the clouds, to the ground and back around.

The beautiful Sierra Nevada’s name translates very literally from Spanish as “mountain snowfall,” meaning snow-covered mountains. The reason why the peaks are snow-covered and why hot, dry Death ...

BOISE, Idaho — Winter storms create some inconvenient, even hazardous, situations at times, but they're also important to southern Idaho. One benefit: those winter storms fill our reservoirs with ...

Since the 1990s Mareeba has welcomed visitors with signs that boast the town has 300 sunny days a year. A rain-shadow effect caused by the Great Dividing Range means Mareeba has less rain than ...

What makes a desert a desert? Mostly, it is lack of rainfall. Less than ten inches of rain per year qualifies a region as a desert. Hesperia's average is 7.49 inches, as calculated by me, a Hesperia ...