(KRON) — The first of two significant atmospheric river storms barreled into the Bay Area on Wednesday, bringing heavy rain, flooding, and causing trees to fall. Rain is expected to continue over the ...

Over the past 40 years, atmospheric rivers carrying moisture from the tropics have migrated between 6 and 10 degrees closer ...

Atmospheric rivers are long and relatively narrow bands of water vapor that form over an ocean and flow through the sky, transporting much of the moisture from the tropics to northern latitudes. They ...

Earth's atmospheric rivers are no longer traveling along their historical paths. They are shifting toward both poles, an ...

The circulation of the atmosphere is characterized by features such as polar fronts, mid-latitude jet streams (fast-flowing narrow air currents) and a tropical meridional (north–south) overturning ...

One of the big contributors to the record-breaking global temperatures over the past year – El Nino – is nearly gone, and its opposite, La Nina, is on the way. Whether that’s a relief or not depends ...

The NOAA Climate Prediction Center announced an end to the El Niño climate phenomenon on Thursday, and predicted that La Niña could start as early as next month. By Austyn Gaffney El Niño, the natural ...

[Warning: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid.] Quick, someone put Sesame Street on the aux and grab us some tissues, because we’re breaking down the ending of ...

While atmospheric rivers and bomb cyclones can bring intense precipitation and strong winds, they are distinct meteorological phenomena with different implications for weather patterns. Tyson Fury ...