California’s 10th Atmospheric River This Winter Causes Levee Breach and Thousands to Evacuate. Here’s What to Know About the Storms ...

As yet another atmospheric river barrels toward California, residents brace for the threat of engorged rivers and overtopped reservoirs. New storm could push California rivers beyond flood stage ...

This is going to be the 10th atmospheric river that California has experienced this season. And basically, atmospheric rivers are these ...

The storm marked the state's 10th atmospheric river of the winter, storms that have brought enormous amounts of rain and snow to the state and helped lessen the drought conditions that had dragged ...

This week’s storm marked the state’s 10th atmospheric river of the winter, storms that have brought enormous amounts of rain and snow to the state and helped lessen the drought conditions that ...

The storm marked the state's 10th atmospheric river of the winter. Lake Oroville — home to the nation's tallest dam — has so much water now that officials on Friday opened the dam's spillways ...

An atmospheric river is a long band of water vapor that extends over the Pacific Ocean for thousands of miles and is hundreds of miles wide.

According to Porter, this atmospheric river will be "unusually potent" and moisture-laden. The tropical moisture being dumped on the East Coast has travelled some 2,000 miles from the Caribbean Sea.

The term atmospheric river is defined as narrow areas in the atmosphere that transport significant amounts of moisture to areas outside of the tropics. It’s like a river in the sky, Martell said.

Most aren't that massive, though—the average atmospheric river is about 500 miles wide and 1,200 miles long. They transport huge volumes of water around the world, carrying it along as vapor and ...