Over a 20-year period, atmospheric rivers could double the amount of rain falling on part of the Southeast, the researchers ...

That’s because these atmospheric rivers are long bands of warm air that travel across places like Antarctica, spilling lots ...

One recent example was the atmospheric river that created flooding and a lot of rain earlier in May of 2025 along the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement ...

They are about 250 to 375 miles wide and can be more than 1,000 miles long. Rivers on land generally flow downhill; atmospheric rivers flow in the direction of moving air created by weather systems." ...

These atmospheric rivers, invisible yet powerful corridors of moisture, play a key role in the continent’s climate dynamics, particularly in influencing snow and rainfall patterns.

CBJ, Tlingit & Haida, and the NWS are monitoring the basin closely and will issue an alert as soon as it begins to release. Official updates and resources are available at www.juneaufloodhelp.org.

Exceptionally strong atmospheric rivers can transport up to 15 times that amount of water. This atmospheric river had been hovering over the Southeast for days, trapped by a strong high pressure ...

New research from the University of Texas indicates global warming may disrupt a key atmospheric pattern that brings winter ...

ARLINGTON, Va. − A sprawling atmospheric river that hammered the Southeast with up to a foot of rain was sweeping through the Mid-Atlantic states Tuesday, driving multiple inches of rain and the ...

The result of the increase, the simulation predicted, could be that the frequency of atmospheric rivers over Antarctica doubles by the end of the century, with the precipitation that these events ...