The storms are the latest instance of the atmospheric river phenomenon, which researchers are working to understand better as climate change drives increasingly frequent extreme weather around the ...

Atmospheric rivers are a major factor in extreme rain and snowfall in the West. Atmospheric rivers carry huge amounts of water over thousands of miles. Atmospheric rivers have been in the ...

But they also cause a large share of the state’s levee breaches and debris flows. One atmospheric river can be enough to flood homes, down power lines and wash away hillsides and highways.

California is in the midst of a strong atmospheric river that's caused flooding, evacuations, road closures, and mention of it is all over the news and social media. And this comes on the heel of ...

That term is called an "Atmospheric River." CBS 8 wanted to know more about atmospheric rivers, what they are, how they work, and why they can be so potent. To do so, we turned to the Center for ...

Florida, Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina are forecast to see most of the effects of the atmospheric river. The chances of rain in the area "will increase later this weekend ...

These drenched parcels of air parcel flow sinuously along, an “atmospheric river” winding its way toward land. When that wet air hit a coast—in this case the West Coast of the United States ...

The water is moved over the ocean in the form of water vapor, not a "river" in the way we think of them on land. They tend to move through the atmosphere in streams between 250 and 375 miles wide.

A rainy winter season in California tends to surface the phrase, but what exactly is an atmospheric river and what does it mean for the region? NBC 7 Meteorologist Brooke Martell explains.

An atmospheric river is a plume of moisture that helps carry saturated air from the tropics to higher latitudes, delivering unrelenting rain or snow. While atmospheric rivers are an incredibly ...