High above our heads and unseen to the naked eye, rivers of water vapor flow through the atmosphere. These "atmospheric rivers" are crucial to the global water cycle. Astonishingly, they have the ...

SAN DIEGO COUNTY, Calif. — Over the last decade, weather experts have more frequently used a relatively new term to explain powerful storms from the Pacific Ocean that drop inches of rain across the ...

A barrage of intense, wild swings in climate conditions may have fueled the largest mass extinction in Earth’s history. A re-creation of how ancient sea surface temperatures, ocean and atmosphere ...

The West Coast’s rainy season has arrived in force, as an atmospheric river carrying moisture from the tropics joins a bomb cyclone off the Pacific Northwest coast. Heavy, wet snow began falling in ...

As extreme weather events have hit the world hard in recent years, one meteorology term - atmospheric rivers - has made the ...