An international team of scientists has demonstrated how powerful thunderstorm complexes over the U.S. Corn Belt are fueled ...

Hot air holds more moisture. That’s why you can blow your hair dry even after a steamy shower. It’s also what dumps rain in the tropics and sucks water from desert soils. A new study, published in ...

Parts of Oregon and Washington are experiencing back-to-back atmospheric river events in less than a week. Oregon’s state climatologist says a changing climate will make these types of storms stronger ...

New research from Purdue University reveals how moisture influences atmospheric blocking, a phenomenon that often drives heat waves, droughts, cold outbreaks and floods, helping solve a mystery in ...

Purdue University research reveals moisture's role in atmospheric blocking, a key driver in extreme weather events, solving a climate mystery and improving forecasts New research from Purdue ...

“Atmospheric rivers don’t dance to the tune of ENSO,” said Alexander Gershunov, a climate scientist at Scripps and co-author of the study. While dancing to the beat of their own drum, atmospheric ...

Just as rivers flow across the land, sustaining communities, livelihoods and biodiversity, ‘invisible rivers’ flow above us, carrying more water vapour than all the rivers on Earth combined. These ...

To understand what Americans are experiencing with this winter blast, we need to look more than 20 miles above the surface of Earth, to the stratospheric polar vortex. When you purchase through links ...

A unique weather situation is shaping up for late October. Here’s what an atmospheric river means and why it matters. An “atmospheric river” has been dubbed such by the field of meteorology and is a ...

A surge of moisture will move into northwest Montana today, bringing widespread precipitation. Higher elevations along the Montana/Idaho border could see between a half inch and an inch and a half of ...