A powerful storm hitting the West Coast combines these phenomena for a wet week of erratic weather, as a meteorologist ...

The definition: An atmospheric river (AR) is a long plume of moisture that stretches from the tropics or subtropics into ...

The first atmospheric river storm of the winter rainy season slammed into California on Wednesday. Driven by a powerful “bomb ...

On Thursday, rain poured across the northern edge of the state, slowly moving south. Santa Rosa Airport saw 4.93 inches of ...

A bomb cyclone slammed the Pacific Northwest earlier this week, causing widespread power outages. Here's what it looked like ...

Satellite imagery captured a powerful storm system as it ... due to the “very strong” atmospheric river, while heavy snow was forecasted in mountainous areas of California and Oregon. Credit: CSU/CIRA ...

Following hot on the heels of a bomb cyclone that knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of people across the Pacific Northwest and claimed at least two lives, an atmospheric river storm is ...

In recent years, "atmospheric river" has become used much more frequently in scientific papers and in media coverage.

But the cloud cover is not going to break a ton over the next several days because the atmospheric river is going to keep that moisture going.” This Nov. 19, 2024 satellite image provided by the ...

The West Coast's rainy season has arrived in force, as an atmospheric river carrying moisture from the tropics joins a bomb ...

Just one atmospheric river can move an average of 10.5 trillion gallons of ... particularly in the western U.S." A view of the Earth using a water vapor satellite shows that moisture in the atmosphere ...