Northern Nevada and the eastern side of the Sierra are expected to see rain and snow midweek and into the weekend. The ...

A series of three back-to-back atmospheric rivers is set to batter the West Coast in the next several days, dumping up to 10 feet of snow in the Sierra Nevada and flooding rains at lower elevations.

A "bomb cyclone" is forecast to intensify an atmospheric river and bring snow to the northern Sierra Nevada starting on Tuesday, with heavy rain expected along the West Coast.

In the northern Sierra Nevada, snow will fall in feet — not inches. And in the Northern California Coastal Range, a general 5 to 10 inches of rain is expected to fall.

What are the atmospheric river ... In the Sierra Nevada, atmospheric rivers are 2.5 times more likely to result in destructive "rain-on-snow" events — when rain falls on snowpack and ...

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, atmospheric rivers typically stretch 250 to 375 miles wide and can be more than 1,000 miles long.NASA projects that as the ...

February brought the first atmospheric river of the winter into the Sierra, and while the storm system improved conditions significantly it has not produced enough snow to recover from Nevada’s ...

According to NOAA, a strong atmospheric river can carry an equivalent of 7 to 15 times the average flow of water at the mouth of the Mississippi River. ... Colorado, Nevada, Utah, ...

An atmospheric river is a narrow corridor or filament of concentrated water vapor transported in the atmosphere. It’s like a river in the sky that can be 1,000 miles long .

At atmospheric river continues to slam portions of California Tuesday, ... with 3 to 6+ inches for the Sierra Nevada foothills," the NWS said Tuesday.

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