To many, atmospheric rivers are a West Coast phenomenon. But they’re also responsible for the devastating flooding that hit ...

The deadly, widespread flooding disaster that plunged parts of the central and southern United States underwater in early ...

A few important differences between West Coast atmospheric rivers and those that hit the eastern half of the US ... river pulls its moisture from. Those in the West tap into the Pacific Ocean ...

As atmospheric rivers pounded the U.S. West Coast last winter, scientists deployed increasingly advanced observing tools over ...

As global temperatures warm, the Southern Ocean—between Antarctica and other continents—will eventually release heat absorbed from the atmosphere ... which allows us to study them," Lehner ...

Typically, they strike the U.S. West Coast from late fall through early ... next to the Angeles Crest Highway as a powerful atmospheric river storm breaks on February 14, 2025 in the San Gabriel ...

Satellite imagery showing the transport of atmospheric water vapor reveals the atmospheric river lurching like a ghostly finger toward California from the central tropical Pacific Ocean.

Improvements in tornado detection technology might account for the boosted numbers, but a shifting Tornado Alley may really ...

California's collapsing salmon runs and Dungeness crab rules have forced restaurants, charter boats and commercial fishers in Bodega Bay to adapt.