The Pacific Northwest was being slammed ... eased somewhat Wednesday evening, a strong atmospheric river was ramping up and taking aim at southwestern Oregon and Northern California — where ...

The storm that pummeled California this week was fueled by an atmospheric river, a plume of moisture that extended over the Pacific to near Hawaii. Heavy rain and gusty winds that began hitting ...

Like those East Coast storms, “atmospheric river” can feel like a buzzword ... the moisture-rich storms that develop over the Pacific Ocean and dump precipitation when they collide with ...

A Maryland school required evacuation by rescue boats and a child died in Virginia as an unrelenting atmospheric river pounded multiple ... the upper mid-Atlantic to southwestern New England ...

In southwestern Oregon near the coast, 4 to 7 inches (10 to 18 centimeters) of rain was predicted — with as much as 10 inches (25 centimeters) possible in some areas — through late Thursday ...