(KRON) – A significant storm rolled in overnight into Wednesday, and you have an atmospheric river to thank. The weather phenomenon is making its first visit to the Bay Area this season and bringing a ...

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 ...

An atmospheric river is a long, narrow band of moisture that oftentimes comes ahead of a storm system. It's a big source of moisture for the Western U.S. and, specifically, the Sierra Nevada and ...

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 ...