LOS ANGELES — Rain intensified Thursday in California, where the strongest atmospheric river of the ... on Thursday in dozens of districts in New England, where snow and ice made driving dangerous.

Snow and ice in whiteout conditions contributed to a pileup of as many as 30 cars on a major highway connecting Oregon and ...

An expert at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography explains the weather phenomenon that can wreak havoc across California.

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

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

Many atmospheric river events are weak. But the powerful ones can transport extraordinary amounts of moisture. Studies have shown that they can carry seven to 15 times the average amount of water ...

sending water into the North Yuba River, passing through its New Colgate Powerhouse, creating room for flood storage space amid the recent atmospheric river. Operating the spillway is not unusual ...