The following is an excerpt from a recent article on the Weather West Blog.  California's extraordinary precipitation dipole has persisted into mid-Feb with only slight attenuation Well, it has ...

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, ...

Weather balloons and “hurricane hunter” planes aid the science of understanding California’s atmospheric rivers.

The Bay Area weather forecast has more rain and wind as another atmospheric river arrives and flood evacuations are issued ...

The jet stream is like a river of west-to-east winds in the upper atmosphere. Airplanes use it like a highway. A wet pattern will bring periods of rain and showers to Southern California ...

Heavy rain is hitting the Bay Area and coastal areas this week as an atmospheric river moves through Northern California.

What’s the connection between climate change and an increase in so-called atmospheric rivers?

You may have heard meteorologists using the phrases "atmospheric river" and "Pineapple Express" when talking about wet weather in California, but what do they really mean?

The first in what’s expected to be a series of three atmospheric river storms has arrived in California. Forecasters are hopeful the winter storms might finally lift Los Angeles County from the ...

Wildfire aerosols travel thousands of kilometers to the Arctic, influencing ice cloud formation at warmer temperatures.

Coming from the tropics, these atmospheric river storms will be warmer, and the weather models are not unified on how much of the precipitation will fall as snow. We're seeing it right now ...