Deadly floods like those in Texas are rare in California, but climate change-fueled storms could make them more likely, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

New Mexico and Arizona typically stand to benefit the most from the North American monsoon, getting anywhere between 10% to ...

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

KCCI meteorologist Zane Satre looks at the deadly flash flooding in central Texas and breaks down how it happened, plus the factors that may or may not have contributed to the tragedy.

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 ...