The short-staffed California Nevada River Forecast Center, a small Sacramento field office of the National Weather Service, ...

An atmospheric river is, essentially, a concentrated area of water vapor that transports large amounts of water through the ...

To many, atmospheric rivers are a West Coast phenomenon. But they’re also responsible for the devastating flooding that hit ...

Much like a conveyer belt, an atmospheric river transports moisture from the tropical and subtropical oceans and dumps it as ...

"California gets a lot of precipitation in ... It turns the jet stream into a closed-off low-pressure system. Where many atmospheric river events hit straight from East to West, the closed off ...