This story appears in the spring 2025 issue of UC San Diego Magazine as “Taking Flight.” ...

His team had bullied into Hurricane Helene’s eye when he noticed on radar that the storm looked like it was dripping ...

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), "atmospheric rivers are long, flowing regions of the atmosphere that carry water vapor through the sky. They are about 250 ...

Climate change makes heavy rain even heavier, beginning with warmer waters in the Gulf of Mexico that produce more ...

A decade before the Klamath Dams were removed, NOAA and other partners removed dams on the Elwha River in Washington State.

A dangerous storm stretching 1,000 miles along the Eastern Seaboard will bring torrential rain to the Mid-Atlantic on Tuesday.

where he works with NOAA. But it's not rare for atmospheric rivers to land in areas outside of California, he said. They typically happen because of a "cutoff low," according to Hazelton — when ...

After early signs of drought from Georgia through Virginia this spring, a slow-moving storm brought flooding rain to the ...

An atmospheric river is bringing 2–5+ inches of rain to Southeast Alaska, especially near Ketchikan and Annette Island.

Of those storms, the federal weather agency forecasts that six to 10 will be hurricanes — with three to five of them major.

As hurricane season approaches, thousands of weather and disaster experts have raised concerns about NOAA and NWS budget cuts ...