Stretching from Montana to Missouri, the Missouri River basin is one of the country's largest river systems. Over the past ...

Regional climate variability plays a big role, but reduced forest cover and a rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide are also ...

Some local experts say discourse has gone too far.

A new study finds that atmospheric rivers — the heavy rain and wind events most known for dousing California and other parts of the West — have been getting bigger, wetter and more frequent in the ...

As Northern Virginia deals with increased strain on the electric grid from data center development, and hotter and colder ...

Snow-covered area in February across the western United States was 13 percent below average, at 822,000 square kilometers (317,000 square miles) of snow cover, ranking sixteenth highest in the 25-year ...

In the Pacific Northwest, it’s been a messy few days. Surges of wind and moisture battered local ski resorts as an atmospheric river passed through. Fickle freezing levels presented the risk of rain, ...

Here’s the satellite view of what’s called an atmospheric river. There is a low pressure system over the Pacific Ocean that is affecting the West Coast. GOES-W satellite shows the defined ...

The Powderchasers Brief: Heavy snow developed Monday night and continues to pound the northern PNW on Tuesday. The last chair on Tuesday will likely be measured in feet. Strong winds and gusts near 60 ...

The weather impacts are associated with an atmospheric river that arrived over the weekend. An NWS weather map shows all alerts issued in the Northwestern U.S. for an ongoing atmospheric river.