The United States Air Force Hurricane Hunters made a stop in Sacramento to update how flying into atmospheric rivers can lead to a better understanding of them.
All of the data collected from the flights are sent back to weather centers to compile and compare, ultimately improving storm predictability and forecasting.
As crews work to remove potentially hundreds of thousands of tons of hazardous materials from the Los Angeles wildfires, ...
Conventional knowledge in California about whether significant rainfall is in store for any given year has largely been tied up in the climate patterns of El Niño and La Niña. But a new study ...
The study, published in the journal Climate Dynamics, found that atmospheric rivers explain the majority of atypical El Nino ...
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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 ...
While most look for ways to avoid the steady rain falling from atmospheric rivers, some take advantage of the unwieldy ...
More than a dozen atmospheric rivers dumped rainfall on California in 2023 but replenished only 25 percent of the water lost from aquifers since 2006.