They are responsible for producing heavy rain and snow, especially when pushed up against mountain ranges like the Cascades and Sierra Nevada. A well-known type of atmospheric river is called a ...

The season of atmospheric rivers is again upon us. The 2024-2025 water year’s first major storm is arriving, and from space it looks like a behemoth. The storm currently off the northwest coast of the ...

A powerful storm is bearing down on the West Coast and bringing with it a scary-sounding weather term – bomb cyclone. Bomb cyclone is a term used by weather enthusiasts to describe a process that ...

A historically strong bomb cyclone killed at least two people and caused a mass power outage that could last for days after it slammed the Pacific Northwest and Canada’s British Columbia with ...

There are certain weather buzzwords that seemingly come out of nowhere. In recent years, things like the polar vortex, atmospheric river and pineapple express have appeared in national weather ...

It's a scary-sounding weather term – bomb cyclone. Bomb cyclone is a term used by weather enthusiasts to describe a process that meteorologists usually call bombogenesis. It’s the rapid ...

A powerful storm system known as a "bomb cyclone" is expected to hit northwestern states and the Pacific coast in the next few days, causing dangerous conditions, weather forecasters say. A ...

The powerful nor’easter dumping snow across several states will likely escalate into a bomb cyclone and pour even more precipitation across the region just in time for the evening commute. Millions ...

Hurricane season is over, but you still need to know about rapid intensification and why it matters in tropical cyclones and winter storms like the one occurring over the eastern United States. The ...

A bomb cyclone, or bombogenesis, will be dominating headlines over the next day or two as a ‘once in a decade‘ bomb cyclone batters the Pacific Northwest. On the satellite, a bomb cyclone and a ...