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.

according to the NWS map. Floodwater covers an agricultural area after the Salinas River overflowed its banks on January 13, 2023, in Salinas, California. An atmospheric river is forecast to hit ...

Forecast maps from the agency showed that coastal ... The National Weather Service (NWS) Weather Prediction Center said an ...

A Pacific storm system is funneling an atmospheric river toward the Western United States, delivering heavy rain and snow. Atmospheric rivers are essentially moisture streams in the sky and are ...

What a difference an atmospheric river makes. The superstorm with a vapor ... a bump in rainfall and literally wiping drought off the map (that is, for now). The federal government's U.S. Drought ...

In recent years, "atmospheric river" has become used much more frequently ... a mile deep and 1,000 miles long. When plotted on a map or looked down upon from a satellite in space they looked ...

The atmospheric river began drenching the Pacific Northwest ... High totals populated the map in Oregon, with a maximum of 9.6 inches just northwest of Mount Hood. The heavy rains had yet to ...

An atmospheric river brought additional rain ... who are unsure whether they are under evacuation order can check this map online. Sonoma County Schools additionally announced that all schools ...

Use these maps to follow the storm’s forecast and ... A ‘triple-bomb cyclone’ in the Pacific This atmospheric river is connected to a storm system swirling over the northeastern Pacific ...