(THE CONVERSATION) Atmospheric rivers – those long, narrow bands of water vapor in the sky that bring heavy rain and storms to the U.S. West Coast and many other regions – are shifting toward higher ...

Forecasts indicate that an atmospheric river will bring heavy rain and snowfall to much of the Pacific Northwest starting late this week and lasting through the weekend. With persistent heavy ...

It’s a cold air outbreak that some experts say is happening more frequently, and paradoxically, because of a warming world ... that usually west-to-east river of air way above ground that ...