There is a phrase circulating across newsrooms, social media feeds, and emergency management briefings with a force that ...

(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 ...

Ask people to name the world’s largest river, and most will probably guess that it’s the Amazon, the Nile, or the Mississippi. In fact, some of Earth’s largest rivers are in the sky — and they can ...

Stay on top of what’s happening in the Bay Area with essential Bay Area news stories, sent to your inbox every weekday. The Bay Bay Area-raised host Ericka Cruz Guevarra brings you context and ...

Atmospheric rivers are a major factor in extreme rain and snowfall in the West. Atmospheric rivers carry huge amounts of water over thousands of miles. Atmospheric rivers have been in the headlines ...

A rainy winter season in California tends to surface the phrase, but what exactly is an atmospheric river and what does it mean for the region? NBC 7 Meteorologist Brooke Martell explains. Stream San ...

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 ...

Alexandria Johnson does hard science on the most nebulous of subjects: clouds. As an atmospheric scientist and assistant professor of practice in Purdue University’s College of Science, she studies ...