After a brief respite of quiet weather, another round of "atmospheric river" storms is forecast to slam into California over the next few days, dumping heavy rain and snow and raising fears of ...

Extreme California storm causes deadly flooding 02:38. Another "atmospheric river" is bringing widespread flooding to parts of California this week — and it's not the first time the strong ...

Apparently, atmospheric rivers also occur in the eastern US, unleashing a river of moisture like what we will see this week. The reason East Coast atmospheric rivers aren’t talked about much isn ...

After an extraordinarily dry start to the year, three atmospheric river storms are expected to hit California over the next week — with one of them potentially bringing much-needed moisture to ...

A powerful storm known as an atmospheric river swept over California on Thursday, soaking the state with rain and leaving a trail of damage that has become familiar to residents in recent years ...

The peak of the atmospheric river storm in L.A. County will be between Tuesday night and last through Wednesday midday. A second storm — a cold frontal system — is expected to hit L.A. County ...

The atmospheric river coming ashore in Northern California this weekend has been deemed a 5 — or “exceptional,” which is as strong as they get — because it exceeds a threshold of water ...

The Los Angeles River swollen by storm runoff as a powerful long-duration atmospheric river storm, the second in less than a week, continues to impact Southern California on February 5, 2024, in ...

An atmospheric river is a plume of moisture, or water vapor, that moves from the tropics and is dumped over a region as heavy rain or snow. Atmospheric rivers are narrow bands that tend to occur ...

Based on the storm’s intensity and duration, the weather event is given an overall category from 1 to 5. Under this system, Los Angeles’ most recent storm would be a Category 2 because it had ...

Some of Earth’s largest rivers are in the sky, and they can produce powerful storms, like the ones that have drenched northern California.

During a series of strong atmospheric river storms that hit California in 2023, the dropsondes helped advance some forecasts of heavy precipitation by roughly 12 percent, ...