(KRON) — The first of two significant atmospheric river storms barreled into the Bay Area on Wednesday, bringing heavy rain, flooding, and causing trees to fall. Rain is expected to continue over the ...

SEATTLE — What's an atmospheric river? And how is it different from a bomb cyclone? And how is it related to a Pineapple Express? These questions are top of mind as an atmospheric river is impacting ...

I watched the tire slowly filling until it was round and solid feeling again. I was impressed once more with the fact that air — something we can’t see, feel or taste — actually has a measurable mass ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Each day, radio signals from key communications and navigation satellites travel freely through a layer of Earth’s atmosphere ...

A cross section of the upper atmosphere, or troposphere, of Jupiter, showing the depth of storms in a north-south swath that crosses the planet's equator, or equatorial zone (EZ). Blue and red ...

Understanding atmospheric pressure is vital, newsroom meteorologist Justin Ballard said, because those giant H’s and L’s representing high and low air pressure systems on a weather map are meaningless ...

RAIN ALL ACROSS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. AND THIS IS WHY WE’LL DO A LITTLE ATMOSPHERIC ANATOMY HERE FOR JUST A SECOND. SO THIS IS OUR ATMOSPHERIC RIVER. REMEMBER, THAT’S JUST MOISTURE HIGH UP IN THE ...

An atmospheric river is poised to open the floodgates, with torrential rains and gusty winds expected to thrash the West Coast starting Wednesday. California is expected to bear the brunt of the ...