Atmospheric rivers are more common during the winter months, but officials are warning people not to let their guard down.

A series of atmospheric river events during the winter and spring have caused reservoirs to swell to more than 118% than is ...

WHAT IS AN ATMOSPHERIC RIVER? It starts when a large amount of water vapor from tropical oceans is carried by a jet stream ...

Listen to Story In drought-stricken California, such storms have triggered mudslides In 2021, an atmospheric river dumped a month's worth of rain in two days The weather system occurs all over the ...

A view of the California drought map as of April 10, 2025.

As atmospheric rivers pounded the U.S. West Coast last winter, scientists deployed increasingly advanced observing tools over ...

A new study reveals how an atmospheric river led to more devastation after two earthquakes hit Türkiye and Syria, ...

Explainer-What Are Atmospheric Rivers and Why Do They Cause Flooding? (Reuters) -Atmospheric rivers are storms akin to rivers in the sky that dump massive amounts of rain and can cause flooding ...

Atmospheric river storms are drought busters in California, dumping huge amounts of rain in narrow corridors within short periods of time. The ongoing storm slamming Los Angeles, the nation's ...

April atmospheric river storm: When heavy rain, wind and snow could impact Northern California Here is every country working on trade deals with the US This Is the Best Sleep Position to Avoid ...

As of Friday morning, the American Global Forecast System (GFS) model had removed the storm from Northern California altogether ... by moisture from an atmospheric river. Heavy rain, snow and ...

The rain will gradually ease to periods of light rain on Monday afternoon and is expected to taper off early on Tuesday morning.