By Alejandro N. Flores, Boise State University Much of the western U.S. has started 2026 in the midst of a...
Series of atmospheric rivers provided significant snowpack gains, boosted water supply statewide Press release from the Department of Water Resources The Department of Water Resources (DWR) today conducted the first snow survey of the season at Phillips Station. The manual...
Supporters of airborne snow surveys dispute “hotspots” study on water forecasts By Mitch Tobin, The Water Desk A controversial recent...
What drives atmospheric rivers? Da Yang explains how these “rivers in the sky” gain and lose momentum, and how researchers...
UC San Diego–led research shows that understanding where rain comes from could reshape drought planning and land management across the globe From the University of California San Diego: A new University of California San Diego study uncovers a hidden driver...
New study illustrates how these events are raising health and environmental risks for southwestern North America Drying soils in northern...
A new study found compound drought-heatwave events are rippling farther and lasting through the night, raising risks for Southwestern North...
By Andrew Hoell, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a recurring phenomenon defined by shifts in tropical Pacific Ocean sea surface temperatures, ocean currents, and overlying atmospheric winds. It manifests in three distinct phases: neutral, La Niña,...
A better understanding of groundwater in the headwaters could improve streamflow predictions. By Mitch Tobin, The Water Desk Every spring,...
By S. Mehmet Ozsoy, Concordia University and Erkan Yonder, Concordia University Unlike hurricanes and floods, which arrive suddenly and tend...
Persistent spatial patterns of summer weather extremes in the northern hemisphere recorded in tree ring growth records provide a thousand-year history of jet stream ‘wave5’ dynamics. by Susan Trumbore The degree to which global warming will affect atmospheric dynamics and,...
by Bob Henson, Yale Climate Connections Climate change appears to have driven an ongoing 25-year shortfall in winter rains and...
By Pedro DiNezio, University of Colorado Boulder and Timothy Shanahan, The University of Texas at Austin A new wave of...
Over a 20-year period, atmospheric rivers could double the amount of rain falling on part of the Southeast, the researchers found. By Chad Small, Inside Climate News This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization...
