A group of scientists from Southern California recently came to the Bay Area to send up a series of weather balloons to help ...

They're with UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography ... Bodega Bay is to collect weather data on the impressive atmospheric river storm. Every three hours, they're blowing up these ...

Two winter storms will bring snow, freezing rain and arctic cold in a one-two punch to parts of the United States this week.

The definition: An atmospheric river (AR) is a long plume of moisture that stretches from the tropics or subtropics into ...

Al Roker talks to climate scientist Alexander Gershunov about the conditions that made the L.A. wildfires so devastating.

Atmospheric rivers, also described as "rivers in the sky," cause more than 80 percent of all flooding damage across the West ...

Lisa Murkowski announced the Improving Atmospheric River Forecasts Act ... Western Weather and Water Extremes at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. “It will also enhance ...

Only if it falls as snow. A 2016 study by NASA, NOAA, UCLA, and Scripps Institution of Oceanography found that atmospheric river events are 2.5 times more likely to produce "rain over snow" events ...

Rain fell across northern California on Saturday and could continue for days with an atmospheric river hanging over the ...

Containing wildfires—never mind extinguishing them—in parched and windy conditions can be monstrously difficult. Dry vegetation is rocket fuel for blazes and wind both feeds the flames and spreads the ...