A new study finds that atmospheric rivers — the heavy rain and wind events most known for dousing California and other parts of the West — have been getting bigger, wetter and more frequent in the ...

Here is where you can check live feeds that show conditions in the Sierra as rain or snow falls. Below is a view from South ...

Southern California welcomed a surge of moisture that forecasters say could be the first in a series of early March storms, ...

The National Weather Service said the atmospheric river would sweep down from the Pacific Northwest into Southern California from ... early Thursday and another coming late Thursday into Friday.

Atmospheric rivers are jets of sky-born water vapor that transport tropical moisture to higher latitudes, and they can be a blessing. In some years they provide 60% of California’s annual ...

Scientists believe that even if California’s overall water supply from rain and snow storms doesn’t decline, wet and dry cycles have become more intense, and more precipitation is coming as ...

The mandate, said Nicholas Pinter, a professor of applied geoscience at UC Davis who studies California’s levees ... whether that’s an atmospheric river or 2 billion gallons released from ...

You can get in touch with Joe by emailing [email protected] An atmospheric river will deliver heavy ... northern Great Basin and Rockies in the coming days, the National Weather Service ...