Atmospheric rivers are long and relatively narrow bands of water vapor that form over an ocean and flow through the sky, ...
An expert at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography explains the weather phenomenon that can wreak havoc across California.
Heavy precipitation is falling mostly in mountain areas. A flood watch in also in effect for the coast of central California, ...
An atmospheric river is essentially a narrow band of Pacific moisture, water vapor, that is funneled into a long narrow flow.
El Niño and La Niña are climate phenomena that are generally associated with wetter and drier winter conditions in the ...
While the wet weather may bring an end to a devastating run of wildfires in the state, it could also cause flooding and other hazards.
An atmospheric river is developing off the ... and the potential for some flooding concerns. The plume of sub-tropical moisture will first reach San Diego sometime Wednesday morning into the ...
In the northern Sierra Nevada, snow will fall in feet — not inches. And in the northern California Coastal Range, a general 5 to 10 inches of rain is expected to fall.
Widespread light rain has been coating San Diego County since early Wednesday morning but the heavier, more problematic rain is expected Thursday.