Cathedral City has penned an agreement with the Desert Recreation District aimed at providing parks maintenance and recreation programming, city officials announced today.    The pact, slated to start ...

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, ...

Amid a coast-to-coast barrage of winter storms, a firehose of moisture is poised Thursday to bring heavy rains and high winds ...

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 ...

The atmospheric river brought severe thunderstorms to San Francisco on Tuesday. And while trees toppled, the heavy rain also caused a rockslide atop Telegraph Hill.

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

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

Climate change has amplified the intensity and frequency of atmospheric rivers, because warmer air holds more moisture.

The greatest impact is expected in the North Bay, the agency said. Gov. Gavin Newsom's office said the state is preparing emergency resources due to the atmospheric river arriving this weekend in ...

This will be the first round of rain from an atmospheric river, which will keep off and on rain in northern California through Monday. A Flood Watch has already been issued for the Sacramento ...