A rare atmospheric river is hitting a large portion of the Midwestern and Southern U.S. this week, causing significant floods.

and staged at the "crack of dawn" on the winter solstice. At approximately 7:42 a.m. local time, about 670 people jumped into the Derwent River to "welcome back the light" after the longest night ...

21 (UPI) --Those experiencing the winter doldrums can count on seeing more sunlight after the winter solstice arrived ... The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Climate Prediction ...

A new study reveals how an atmospheric river led to more devastation after two earthquakes hit Türkiye and Syria, ...

(The opposite holds true for the Southern Hemisphere, where June brings the winter solstice and the shortest ... Earth's oceans and atmosphere act like heat sinks, absorbing and reradiating ...