An atmospheric river is just how it sounds: A river in the sky. Here's how it can impact your day-to-day. TEMPLE, Texas — For ...

Director of Meteorology Mike Augustyniak was drawn to Minnesota by a love of active weather, and the opportunity to forecast ...

A couple of weeks ago in this column I talked about extreme weather events and how they are repeat offenders. Less than a ...

In recent years, "atmospheric river" has become used much more frequently in scientific papers and in media coverage.

The storm, driven by the season’s first major atmospheric river, inundated the Pacific Northwest and Northern California, ...

Forecasters said a final round of rain, snow and high winds were targeting the Pacific Northwest and Northern California ...

Atmospheric rivers have been increasingly in the news, most recently as part of a weather system that walloped the Pacific Northwest this week.

The satellite imagery was frightening: a powerful low-pressure system swirling approximately 300 miles off the coast of ...

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They're invisible to the naked eye. The water is moved over the ocean in the form of water vapor, not a "river" in the way we think of them on land. They tend to move through the atmosphere in streams ...

A powerful storm described as a “bomb cyclone” will be intensified by an atmospheric river over the Pacific Ocean when it ...

The use of terms including “atmospheric rivers” and “bomb cyclones” to describe weather phenomena has moved out of scientific ...