Dust-on-snow is a major threat to water in the Colorado River, yet no snowmelt forecasts integrate dust-accelerated melt. Using pioneering remote sensing techniques, new research is the first to ...

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

An exceptionally powerful atmospheric river fueled the deadly early April flooding disaster in the central and southern ...

With Easter weekend kicking off the first big outdoor getaway for many, campers and travelers face heightened risks from ...

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

A large part of the United States witnessed heavy rain, strong winds and severe thunderstorms due to a type of storm known as an atmospheric river earlier this month. Atmospheric rivers are a narrow, ...

SOUTHERN INDIANA — Paul Staten, an environmental expert at Indiana University, said flooding of regions such as the Ohio River are expected to become more common because of climate change.

Here's an explanation of how they form, their size and potential impacts. WHAT IS AN ATMOSPHERIC RIVER? The weather system occurs all over the world. It starts when a large amount of water vapor ...

The storms were fueled by a stationary atmospheric river last week that spawned dozens of tornadoes and overwhelmed communities with up to 16 inches of rain in four days – a 100-to-1,000-year ...

An atmospheric river dumped up to 183 millimeters (7.2 inches) of rain on the town of Tut, Türkiye, in 2023, initiating deadly landslides. Credit: Tolga Görüm On 6 February 2023, a pair of ...

Mother Nature served up her own version of an April Fool’s Day joke with rough ocean conditions that kept boats from getting out on the water when the deep-water rockfish season opened April 1.

Atmospheric river storms are drought busters in California ... This winter's storms, for example, are probably giving Californians an acute case of weather whiplash, since the storms are ...