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Numerous weather warnings have been issued for California as the ... including flooding, surf, snow and wind warnings as an atmospheric river is set to drench the West Coast state just in time ...

Outside, Georges Creek had already breached its banks, flooding nearby homes and streets ... The storm that struck Western Maryland was fed by an atmospheric river moving across the Southeast ...

Not surprisingly, these atmospheric rivers will hold more moisture in the warming climate, increasing the risk from stream and river flooding, and in turn, the costs to recover from the flooding.