At least 18 people have died in what the National Weather Service (NWS) has called "catastrophic flooding" that hit the South ...

When a bomb cyclone meets an atmospheric river ... over the Pacific to near Hawaii. Heavy rain and gusty winds that began hitting the San Francisco Bay Area on Wednesday moved south and arrived ...

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

New NIWA research has found that not only could the narrow bands of concentrated water vapour increase, but in the future rainfall from these 'rivers in the sky' is likely to make up a much bigger ...

WHAT IS AN ATMOSPHERIC RIVER? The weather system occurs all over ... roughly 30 and 60 degrees north and south, according to NASA. They appear as a trail of wispy clouds that can stretch for ...

A new study reveals how an atmospheric river led to more devastation after two earthquakes hit Türkiye and Syria, highlighting the need for better risk assessment models.