As winter approached, few anticipated what was about to hit California. Mired in a serious drought, the state was suddenly battered by an onslaught of 31 atmospheric river storms in ...

After an extraordinarily dry start to the year, three atmospheric river storms are expected to hit California over the next week — with one of them potentially bringing much-needed moisture to ...

Coast Guard rescue missions failing after running into unexpected currents. Surprise atmospheric river storms flooding downtown San Francisco. Seafood contaminated by unseen algal blooms ...

The California Department of Water Resources reminded residents in an April 9 post on X (formerly Twitter) that though the weather may be improving in the Golden State, atmospheric rivers could ...

Clarke Knight studies just how far back in history, massive atmospheric river storms wreaked havoc on California. As she reviewed her recent findings on a computer at her then-home in Menlo Park, the ...

LOS ANGELES – California’s drought crept in slowly, but it could end with a torrent of winter storms that stream across the Pacific, dumping much of the year’s rain and ...

The research, published June 4 in the Journal of Hydrometeorology, analyzed more than 43,000 atmospheric river storms across 122 watersheds on the West Coast between 1980 and 2023.The researchers ...