Record rainfall from bomb cyclones and atmospheric river storms brings much-needed relief to drought-stricken reservoirs.

This latest atmospheric river comes on the heels of another system in which the northern half of the Sierra Nevada got ...

Northern California faces a mainly dry day Sunday, though Sierra snow showers will linger in the morning. More rain and snow ...

Atmospheric rivers have been gaining a lot of media traction lately. But while atmospheric rivers have played an integral ...

In recent years, "atmospheric river" has become used much more frequently in scientific papers and in media coverage.

They're invisible to the naked eye. The water is moved over the ocean in the form of water vapor, not a "river" in the way we think of them on land. They tend to move through the atmosphere in streams ...

While the atmospheric river is hitting the coast, the bomb cyclone will sit over the ocean off the Pacific Northwest and spin. As it spins, it sends small frontal waves through the atmosphere that ...

An atmospheric river is a weather feature that can be beneficial and crucial, but can also be a damaging event - particularly ...

The storms pushing off the Pacific are the result of an atmospheric river, a corridor of air heavy with moisture that forms when warmer air from the tropics moves toward the poles. As the first of ...

KITIMAT, B.C. — British Columbia’s River Forecast Centre has downgraded a flood warning for the province’s north coast after what it describes as a strong atmospheric river event this week. A high ...

They can transport water vapor at a rate that’s up to 15 times the average flow of the Mississippi River, resulting in rain and snow. For the West Coast of the U.S., atmospheric rivers provide ...

This greenhouse gas is about 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide in terms of its ability to heat up the climate system, though methane molecules only persist in the atmosphere for seven to 12 ...