But it turns out a top tier atmospheric river — rated Category 5 on scale of 1 to 5 — was part of the East Coast storm that killed at least five people and cut power to more than 800,000 ...

A “rather impressive system” is setting the stage for what could be California’s first atmospheric river storm of the season.

A powerful storm hitting the West Coast combines these phenomena for a wet week of erratic weather, as a meteorologist ...

"Numerous flash floods, hazardous travel, power outages, and tree damage can be expected as the storm reaches max intensity," ...

Hurricane forecasters got it right when they predicted that 2024 had the ingredients necessary to fuel an extremely active ...

A series of storms fueled by an atmospheric river is taking aim at the Bay Area, intensified by a so-called "bomb cyclone" ...

Bomb cyclone is a term given to a rapidly strengthening storm that fulfills one important criterion. Generally, pressure must drop 24 millibars (a unit of pressure) within 24 hours. Bomb cyclone ...