Tulare Lake, once a vast freshwater body in California, has reappeared after 130 years due to heavy snowmelt, highlighting ...

The short-staffed California Nevada River Forecast Center, a small Sacramento field office of the National Weather Service, ...

Much like a conveyer belt, an atmospheric river transports moisture from the tropical and subtropical oceans and dumps it as ...

An atmospheric river is, essentially, a concentrated area of water vapor that transports large amounts of water through the ...

The Mad River Hatchery raised generations of steelhead and anglers. Now, California is shutting it down for good.

"California gets a lot of precipitation in ... It turns the jet stream into a closed-off low-pressure system. Where many atmospheric river events hit straight from East to West, the closed off ...