To many, atmospheric rivers are a West Coast phenomenon. But they’re also responsible for the devastating flooding that hit ...

The Mississippi River crested in New Orleans this week, capping an anxious period for the engineers and residents who live ...

A commercial fisherman nabbed a large male Chinese mitten crab in the lower Columbia River late last month, putting ...

The long-held understanding that baby salmon emerge from the streams where they hatched to head out to sea actually is ...

The most powerful atmospheric river this season was linked to a bomb cyclone that ... while wind gusts exceeding hurricane ...

Saturday: We'll start off with increased cloud coverage and some chilly temperatures on our Saturday morning. A small chance for a shower early this morning along the Cascades and possibly a chance ...

They appear as a trail of wispy clouds that can stretch for hundreds of miles. Atmospheric rivers can carry up to 15 times the volume of the Mississippi River, according to the National Oceanic and ...

FREMONT, Neb. (AP) — Three people died when a small airplane crashed into a river in eastern Nebraska Friday night, authorities said. The plane was traveling along the Platte River and crashed ...

This diagram is a forecast from one computer model. It depicts the forecasted atmosphere present in Northwest Iowa at 1 a.m. Friday morning. For this article, I will focus on the box on the left ...

The so-called atmospheric river storm was pulling in a long and wide plume of moisture from the Pacific Ocean. Flooding and rock slides closed portions of roads across Northern California.

(CNN) — An exceptionally powerful atmospheric river fueled the deadly early April flooding disaster in the central and southern United States — a historic flood event and a poignant example of ...