By Sunday evening, power remained out to over 96,000 customers in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, North ...

including an outbreak of tornados expected from the Southern Plains to the Southeast and an atmospheric river in the Northwest. Millions of people were under tornado watches on Saturday in eastern ...

Thousands of acres have been burned in Los Angeles, and the burn scars could flood easily should a moisture-laden storm hit.

Forecasters warn of dangerous conditions as another powerful atmospheric river takes aim at California. While these storms are dreaded for the damage they can cause, they are also essential to the ...

Ralph, one of the nation’s experts on atmospheric river storms, devised the scale on which the storms are graded. It is based on the amount of water vapor in the storm and the duration of time ...

Based on 1982-2011 averages. An atmospheric river is a narrow plume of moisture extending from the tropics or subtropics that Pacific storm systems can tap into as they plow inland. January is a ...

As storms ride the atmospheric river through the weekend, copious amounts of rain will fall across the coastal Pacific Northwest. Heavy rain will occur in pulses from Thursday through Sunday ...

(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 ...