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

Atmospheric rivers, also described as "rivers in the sky," cause more than 80 percent of all flooding damage across the West Coast, and climate change will increase the likelihood of catastrophe by ...

Every state but Hawaii, California and Florida is likely to get a taste of wind chills of 20 degrees or colder.

Global temperatures have ... describes the average weather patterns over a long period, indicating trends in temperature, precipitation and other atmospheric factors. Marine biologists are ...

Climate models predict that atmospheric river activity is likely to generally become more frequent, intense, and longer-lasting around the world with global warming. In 2022, the rivers brought ...

Weather balloons and “hurricane hunter” planes aid the science of understanding California’s atmospheric rivers.

Another atmospheric river is expected to bring heavy rain to most parts of California this week, raising concerns over flooding on the heels of an earlier system that broke daily rainfall records ...

That term is called an "Atmospheric River ... bands of tropical water vapor to form this "river," which travels across the Pacific as part of the global conveyor belt. When it reaches the ...