While most people were trying to stay out of the rain on Thursday, a group of researchers was out in the thick of it ...

The San Juan Creek in California was flowing uncontrollably on Friday after an atmospheric rain that hit Southern California ...

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

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

The study, published in the journal Climate Dynamics, found that atmospheric rivers explain the majority of atypical El Nino ...

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.

An atmospheric river is forecast to bring torrential rain to California this week, threatening parts of the state with flash floods and mudslides.

Atmospheric rivers are a plume of moisture that extend across the Pacific to near Hawaii. When they hit land, they can cause heavy rains and snow. Here’s a look at the phenomenon: ...

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

They can vary greatly in size and strength, however, the average atmospheric river carries an amount of water vapor "roughly equivalent to the average flow of water at the mouth of the Mississippi ...