Extreme precipitation events in Antarctica, which are mostly dominated by snowfall due to sub-zero temperatures, also include ...

Atmospheric rivers are a plume of moisture that extend across the Pacific to near Hawaii. When they hit land they can cause ...

An expert at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography explains the weather phenomenon that can wreak havoc across California.

El Niño and La Niña are climate phenomena that are generally associated with wetter and drier winter conditions in the ...

Atmospheric rivers – sometimes referred to as "rivers in the sky" – are long, narrow tracts of the Earth’s atmosphere that gather moisture from the tropics near the equator and sweep it ...