The study, published in the journal Climate Dynamics, found that atmospheric rivers explain the majority of atypical El Nino ...
Atmospheric rivers are a plume of moisture that extend across the Pacific to near Hawaii. When they hit land, they can cause heavy rains and snow. Here’s a look at the phenomenon: ...
Thursday’s storms followed two days of heavy snow and freezing rain in a swath of the eastern U.S. stretching from Kentucky to Washington, D.C., that caused hundreds of traffic accidents, knocked out ...
Many atmospheric river events are weak. But the powerful ones can transport extraordinary amounts of moisture. Studies have ...
On the southern end of the storm, at least two tornadoes were reported in Alabama and Mississippi on Wednesday as winds gusted near 60 mph. Next, the atmospheric river that's currently pounding ...
Meteorologists are tracking more bad weather for next week, which will immediately follow this week's disruptive trifecta of ...
As California prepares for heavy rain in areas recently burned by wildfires, the first of three storms expected in the US ...
The rainfall was so intense that in one dramatic example, a mudslide caused an entire house to slip down a bank into the ...
OAKLAND, Calif. - Heavy rain is hitting the Bay Area and coastal areas this week as an atmospheric river moves through Northern California. The National Weather Service said Tuesday would see ...