Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: Heavy cloud system moves towards the U.S. west coast in a composite image from the NOAA GOES-West weather satellite ...

Communities up and down the West Coast of the United States can expect atmospheric rivers to evolve as the climate warms. But residents in Southern California will see much different changes than ...

Scientists discovered that atmospheric rivers reaching Antarctica arrive at an angle, improving snowfall tracking and sea ...

Atmospheric rivers are ribbons of water vapor in the sky that can deliver huge amounts of precipitation when they reach land. The landfall of a brewing atmospheric river can be predicted up to three ...

What Exactly Is an Atmospheric River? Think of atmospheric rivers as narrow regions in the atmosphere that transport water vapor, with the average one carrying an amount roughly equivalent to the ...

While most look for ways to avoid the steady rain falling from atmospheric rivers, some take advantage of the unwieldy weather patterns to improve forecasts and to help control, and ultimately ...

Northern California is in the middle of a dramatic weather shift. From bitter cold to widespread rain and significant Sierra snow, impacts peak through Saturday during the first major storm of the ...

There is a phrase circulating across newsrooms, social media feeds, and emergency management briefings with a force that matches the storms it describes: "sky tsunami." Meteorologists long resisted it ...

You know we’re approaching winter when atmospheric rivers begin ramping up. A powerful atmospheric river blasted the Pacific Northwest and Northern California last month with flooding rainfall and ...