El Niño and La Niña are climate phenomena that are generally associated with wetter and drier winter conditions in the ...
Weather balloons and “hurricane hunter” planes aid the science of understanding California’s atmospheric rivers.
The only category worse is “exceptional” drought ... Northern California is primed to get three atmospheric river storms, according to Courtney Carpenter, a meteorologist with the weather ...
The atmospheric river is being driven by a low pressure system midway between Hawaii and the West Coast, as well as a secondary low-pressure system offshore of the Pacific Northwest. Both are ...