The study, published in the journal Climate Dynamics, found that atmospheric rivers explain the majority of atypical El Nino ...

While most look for ways to avoid the steady rain falling from atmospheric rivers, some take advantage of the unwieldy ...

El Niño and La Niña are climate phenomena that are generally associated with wetter and drier winter conditions in the ...

Atmospheric rivers are long and relatively narrow bands of water vapor that form over an ocean and flow through the sky, ...

The weather phenomena are common for California winters, but they could cause dangerous debris flows or mudslides in recently ...

Since the late 1990s, summer surface melt in coastal West Antarctica has significantly increased due to intensified anticyclonic blocking and enhanced warm air advection, driven by Rossby wave ...

SAN FRANCISCO – A series of "atmospheric river" storms aimed at Northern California have already caused flooding, downed trees, landslides and at least one house on a scenic river to slide into ...

The second atmospheric river in a pair of storms will bring more rain and cooler temperatures to the Los Angeles area. The National Weather Service said the region will continue to have drizzle or ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Thursday brings another round of rain as the next atmospheric river system arrives in the Bay Area. Low pressure and associated fronts will move over the region ...

After months of extremely dry conditions in Southern California, an atmospheric river storm delivered much-needed rain to a region plagued by wildfires in January. Scattered showers fell across ...

U.S. Senators Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) have announced bipartisan legislation that will reduce flood risks and bolster emergency preparedness by improving atmospheric river ...

What is a Pineapple Express? It's a type of atmospheric river that forms a long, narrow tract in the Earth’s atmosphere. This jet stream gathers moisture from the tropics near the equator and ...