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

Atmospheric rivers are long and relatively narrow bands of water vapor that form over an ocean and flow through the sky, transporting much of the moisture from the tropics to northern latitudes ...

The bomb cyclone bringing high wind gusts to the Pacific Northwest is about to pull in a plume of moisture in the form of an atmospheric river. Climate change is decimating the likelihood of ...

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

The weather phenomena are common for California winters, but they could cause dangerous debris flows or mudslides in recently ...

Climate change played a role in both phenomena: Extreme atmospheric river events in California are becoming more common as global temperatures rise, since a warmer atmosphere traps more moisture.

She has covered climate change and natural disasters extensively ... Numerous weather alerts are in place across Northern California as an atmospheric river is set to bring excessive moisture ...

Both reservoirs have been steadily rising since November, after the start of California's water year in October. A series of ...

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

a river of fast winds in the upper atmosphere that separates very cold artic air from warm air generated in the tropics, must ...

Officials in California distributed sandbags, prepositioned rescue swimmers and told residents to have their go-bags ready as ...