El Niño and La Niña are climate phenomena that are generally associated with wetter and drier winter conditions in the ...

Officials are grappling with the aftermath of the atmospheric river which caused mudslides and floods, especially in areas impacted by wildfires.

While most look for ways to avoid the steady rain falling from atmospheric rivers, some take advantage of the unwieldy ...

Atmospheric rivers are long and relatively narrow bands of water vapor that form over an ocean and flow through the sky, ...

The weather phenomena are common for California winters, but they could cause dangerous debris flows or mudslides in recently ...

An expert at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography explains the weather phenomenon that can wreak havoc across California.

Following a brief lull in the stormy pattern, California residents are on track to be doused by another atmospheric river, AccuWeather meteorologists warn. Through early this week, the drier stretch ...

The jet stream is like a river of west-to-east winds in the upper atmosphere. Airplanes use it like a highway. A wet pattern will bring periods of rain and showers to Southern California ...

Places like California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah and Nevada are (somewhat) used to this sort of phenomenon. You can ...

A Flood Watch has been issued for the entire Bay Area, as an atmospheric river storm on Friday ushers the return of wet weather to the region following a mostly dry January. According to the ...

A flood watch is in effect for most of the Bay Area through 10 p.m. Sunday Coastal mountain regions could see as much as 8" of rain The heaviest rain from the atmospheric river will fall on Monday and ...

After an extraordinarily dry start to the year, three atmospheric river storms are expected to hit California over the next week — with one of them potentially bringing much-needed moisture to ...