Orographic thunderstorms are common in the U.S, occurring in areas where moisture-laden winds are forced upward as they encounter mountain ranges. While the vast majority of these storms are not ...

Hurricane Helene is now in the records of one of the most deadly storms to hit the United States in the last 50 years and the majority of the death toll so far comes from flooding and the ...

Thunderstorms formed in the mountains are called orographic storms, from the Greek word oros, meaning mountain.

When moisture-laden air is driven across coastal terrain by vigorous winter storm winds, that process of orographic lifting leads to significantly higher amounts of rainfall over the mountains and ...

This system is expected to bring scattered showers across much of the forecast area, along with a slight chance of isolated thunderstorms in the eastern Oregon mountains.