The definition: An atmospheric river (AR) is a long plume of moisture that stretches from the tropics or subtropics into ...

NOAA forecasts that unsettled weather will return to our region this week. The first round of rain is expected to impact ...

At atmospheric river continues to slam portions of California Tuesday, with multiple inches of rain expected until Wednesday ...

An atmospheric river is a massive band of water vapor that carries rain to an area. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said in a forecast: "A prolonged atmospheric river ...

Forecasts indicate that an atmospheric river will bring heavy rain and snowfall to much of the Pacific Northwest starting ...

Atmospheric rivers, also described as "rivers in the sky," cause more than 80 percent of all flooding damage across the West ...

The storm brought heavy rain and high-elevation snowfall to Northern California over the weekend, and a similar one is ...

Only if it falls as snow. A 2016 study by NASA, NOAA, UCLA, and Scripps Institution of Oceanography found that atmospheric river events are 2.5 times more likely to produce "rain over snow" events ...

An atmospheric river is slamming portions of California, with multiple inches of rain expected to drench the area until the storm runs out of moisture Wednesday morning, forecasters say.