According to Accuweather, some of the major fires still burning could be put out, at least partially. The additional effect ...

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

Cooler, wet weather is forecast to bring moisture to the parched landscape and reduce the fire threat. But heavy rainfall ...

Dry vegetation helped fuel the fires that spread through the Los Angeles area, burning tens of thousands of acres.

The thousands of drivers traversing Interstate 5 on any given day this winter can see for themselves: nothing even remotely like a water shortage currently plagues the State Water Project. This is ...

In total, the states affected by the atmospheric river are Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, western Montana, western Wyoming, northern Nevada and northern Utah. Impacts mostly consist of ...

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 ...

(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 ...

Two men row a boat in front of a flooded RV park after an extreme atmospheric river event brought flooding to Sonoma County in California in November 2024. An atmospheric river is a long plume of ...

Human-caused climate change was responsible for about a quarter of the fuel available for the wildfires that have devastated ...

A strong atmospheric river was making landfall in the Pacific ... strong winds and potentially dangerous surf in areas from Northern California to British Columbia. Atmospheric rivers are long ...

How dry is it in Southern California? See the drought levels and recent rainfall totals for several counties in the region.