Anna Skinner is a Newsweek senior reporter based in Indianapolis. Her focus is reporting on the climate, environment and weather but she also reports on other topics for the National News Team.

according to the NWS map. Floodwater covers an agricultural area after the Salinas River overflowed its banks on January 13, 2023, in Salinas, California. An atmospheric river is forecast to hit ...

Forecast maps from the agency showed that coastal ... The National Weather Service (NWS) Weather Prediction Center said an ...

A Pacific storm system is funneling an atmospheric river toward the Western United States, delivering heavy rain and snow. Atmospheric rivers are essentially moisture streams in the sky and are ...

On Wednesday, NWS Bay Area posted three maps to X outlining the expected impacts from the incoming atmospheric river. For the rainfall totals map, meteorologists warned that up to 3.5 inches of ...

In recent years, "atmospheric river" has become used much more frequently ... a mile deep and 1,000 miles long. When plotted on a map or looked down upon from a satellite in space they looked ...

Map shows total forecasted rainfall of up ... and will receive less precipitation as a result. An atmospheric river hitting the Central Coast will continue across the Central Valley and climb ...

Communities across the Bay Area and Northern California were seeing the effects of the latest atmospheric river storm, with evacuations among the impacts being felt. The National Weather Service ...

As the aircraft approached the atmospheric river, two crew members removed shiny ... His screen showed the plane’s position on a map as it advanced toward the next drop location.

What a difference an atmospheric river makes. The superstorm with a vapor ... a bump in rainfall and literally wiping drought off the map (that is, for now). The federal government's U.S. Drought ...

An atmospheric river brought additional rain ... who are unsure whether they are under evacuation order can check this map online. Sonoma County Schools additionally announced that all schools ...