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

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

An atmospheric river event is forecast to bring rainfall, snow, and the potential for flooding to parts of California this ...

Atmospheric rivers are a plume of moisture that extend across the Pacific to near Hawaii. When they hit land, they can cause heavy rains and snow. Here’s a look at the phenomenon: ...

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

Exceptionally strong atmospheric rivers can move up to 15 times that amount, often leading to "extreme rainfall and floods," NOAA said.

Amid a coast-to-coast barrage of winter storms, a firehose of moisture is poised Thursday to bring heavy rains and high winds ...

according to NOAA. While traditional cold winter storms out of the north Pacific build the Sierra snowpack, atmospheric rivers tend to be warm. Snow may still fall at the highest elevations but ...