This means that, once atmospheric rivers reach land, especially the coastal mountains in California, they move up in altitude from their starting point as they travel. As the water vapor that makes up ...

Uranus's upper atmosphere has been cooling for decades—and now scientists have shown why. Observations from Earth have shown ...

This will be the heaviest rainfall and snowfall event that we’ve experienced so far this wet season,” a National Weather ...

As energy from the sun reaches Earth, some solar radiation is absorbed by the atmosphere, leading to chemical reactions like ...

This will be the heaviest rainfall and snowfall event that we’ve experienced so far this wet season,” a National Weather ...

Pet sitter Kristine Stoflet of Peaceful Pets walks Lola in the rain in East Sacramento in January 2024. An atmospheric river-fueled storm is expected to hit the Sacramento area starting on Tuesday, ...

Since early this year, climate scientists have been saying 2024 was likely to be the warmest year on record. Ten months in, ...

October made climate history, with new records set for above-average temperatures and extremely dry conditions.

Dr. Peter Carter, an Expert Reviewer of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has new information about the ...

A weird pattern over Alaska may cause Mother Nature to cook up some wild weather next week. Here’s an early outlook for ...

As climate change increasingly shapes the Great Lakes region’s ecology and economy, scientists plan to use underwater robots ...

Last winter, the eastern Pacific Ocean experienced a robust El Nino, which was marked by higher-than-usual sea surface ...