Atmospheric rivers are more common during the winter months, but officials are warning people not to let their guard down.

A powerful storm system that stalled over states from Texas to Ohio for several days in early April 2025 wreaked havoc across the region, with deadly tornadoes, mudslides and flooding as rivers rose.

The tropics are a “key source of moisture for atmospheric rivers” and as they warm the “moisture is intensifying the precipitation associated with these systems across the western and ...

She has covered climate change and natural disasters ... Mississippi Valley and into the Ohio Valley. "That moisture plume, known as an atmospheric river, will be tropical in nature and originate ...

The past six months have proven to be a tale of two Californias when it comes to atmospheric river events. While Northern ...

"The climate change influence can be direct ... understanding that anthropogenic warming leads to increases in atmospheric moisture and evaporative demand, and hence, potentially enhances extreme ...

Over the past two decades, satellite-based planetary observations have recorded rapid mass loss of Patagonian glaciers, ...