As climate change increases the frequency of environmental disasters, experts say federal cuts could leave California and ...

Snapshot of the simulated landfall of an atmospheric river along the west coast of North America on February 11, 2020. Credit: DOE Office of Science, Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM ...

Forecasters say it has been a wet start to this year’s monsoon season, which officially began June 15 and runs through the ...

As climate change increases the frequency of environmental disasters, experts say federal cuts could leave California and ...

For the study, the researchers analyzed data from more than 43,000 atmospheric river storms from 122 U.S. West Coast watersheds that occurred between 1980 and 2023. The goal of the study was to ...

Atmospheric rivers are long, narrow regions of water vapor in the atmosphere, like a river in the sky. These systems gather ...

More information: Mariana J. Webb et al, Wet Antecedent Soil Moisture Increases Atmospheric River Streamflow Magnitudes Nonlinearly, Journal of Hydrometeorology (2025). DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-24-0078.1 ...

Officials in Texas are responding to speculation that weather modification played a role in the flash flooding devastation in ...

The result of the increase, the simulation predicted, could be that the frequency of atmospheric rivers over Antarctica doubles by the end of the century, with the precipitation that these events ...

An official from Utah, during a Colorado River conference at CU Boulder last month, framed the consideration as a “divorce” ...