Everyone knows what a river is, but do you know about the concept of an atmospheric river? The majority of water vapor ...

This atmospheric river of moisture is not a new phenomenon, but its name is, having been adopted into the meteorology canon after being first proposed in 1994. Similar to rivers running along the ...

A Maryland school required evacuation by rescue boats and a child died in Virginia as an unrelenting atmospheric river pounded multiple eastern states with heavy ...

Second, this Southeast low is tapping a plume of deep moisture known as an atmospheric river. You may have heard this term used for Pacific storms hammering the West Coast, but they occur around ...

ARLINGTON, Va. − A sprawling atmospheric river that hammered the Southeast with up to a foot of rain was sweeping through the Mid-Atlantic states Tuesday, driving multiple inches of rain and the ...

Much like a conveyer belt, an atmospheric river transports moisture from the tropical and subtropical oceans and dumps it as rain or snow in cooler regions. These long, narrow bands of concentrated ...

An intensifying atmospheric river that has already hit parts of the South with as much as 9 inches of rain will surge north and east Monday. The storm, which caused a waterspout and tornado in ...

An atmospheric river is, essentially, a concentrated area of water vapor that transports large amounts of water through the sky. They usually come from the Gulf of Mexico or the Caribbean and land in ...