Extreme precipitation events in Antarctica, which are mostly dominated by snowfall due to sub-zero temperatures, also include ...

El Niño and La Niña are climate phenomena that are generally associated with wetter and drier winter conditions in the ...

An expert at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography explains the weather phenomenon that can wreak havoc across California.

The Pineapple Express is an atmospheric river in the sky that comes from the Pacific near Hawaii. When it hits the California ...

Atmospheric rivers are long and relatively narrow bands of water vapor that form over an ocean and flow through the sky, ...

Atmospheric rivers – sometimes referred to as "rivers in the sky" – are long, narrow tracts of the Earth’s atmosphere that gather moisture from the tropics near the equator and sweep it ...

In a new study, my colleagues and I show how rain is occurring in sub-zero temperatures due to these “rivers in the sky” – long, narrow plumes of air which transport heat and moisture from the tropics ...

The NTSB is investigating a fatal collision between an American Airlines regional jet and a U.S. Army helicopter over the ...