Atmospheric rivers in the Pacific Northwest already tend to be windier ... the impact will be felt by the millions who call the West Coast home, especially if greenhouse emissions are not ...

Strong ARs transport water vapor roughly equivalent to 7.5 to 15 times the average flow of the Mississippi River. Annually, 30% to 50% of the West Coast's precipitation occurs with just a few ...

Atmospheric rivers are drenching the West Coast with heavy rain ... Bann said the moisture will move from Northern California to the north of Los Angeles and continue into the Sierra Nevada ...

Upward of 15 inches of precipitation could fall along the North Coast and other ... is driving atmospheric river pulses, one after another, into the U.S. West Coast, said Chad Hecht, a research ...

The Pacific Northwest and Northern California ... for some areas,” Dr. Kalansky said. Atmospheric rivers brought rain to the West Coast on Friday and Saturday. Another system is expected ...

Rain soaking Northern California and parts of the Pacific Northwest Wednesday will get heavier as an atmospheric river strengthens ... strengthen just off the West Coast on Friday.

A new study has found that powerful atmospheric rivers ... towards the coast, resulting in a significant and robust increase in sea surface height along the North American west coastline.

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A few important differences between West Coast atmospheric rivers and those that hit the ... to the south and some type of (front) to the north that overlap,” Cordeira explained.

For travelers heading to Portland, Oregon, the two-drop, 620-foot-tall Multnomah Falls in the nearby Columbia River Gorge is ...