Anna Skinner is a Newsweek senior reporter based in Indianapolis. Her focus is reporting on the climate, environment and weather but she also reports on other topics for the National News Team.

In a forecast, the NWS warned of "heavy ... alerts issued in the Northwestern U.S. for an ongoing atmospheric river. An NWS weather map shows all alerts issued in the Northwestern U.S. for an ...

Live tracker maps show that an atmospheric river is expected to continue dumping ... NWS office in Memphis, Tennessee, in a Friday morning forecast: "A Moderate Risk for severe storms now exists ...

An atmospheric river is pounding Northern ... is expected on Thursday and Friday. This weather map shows the Western rain and snow forecast over the next four days. Meanwhile, in the mountains ...

Meteorologists at the Weather Prediction Center released a map on Wednesday showing ... of flooding Thursday and Friday when an atmospheric river is forecast to drench the state.

AND THIS IS WHY WE’LL DO A LITTLE ATMOSPHERIC ANATOMY HERE ... I CHECKED ON SOME OF THE FORECAST GAUGES FOR PLACES LIKE THE COSUMNES RIVER, A SPOT THAT FLOODS VERY EASILY. IT’S NOT CONTROLLED ...

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