(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 ...

New mapping of the giant planet’s upper atmosphere reveals likely reason why it’s so hot. The upper layers in the atmospheres of gas giants — Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune — are hot, just like ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

High above our heads and unseen to the naked eye, rivers of water vapor flow through the atmosphere. These "atmospheric rivers" are crucial to the global water cycle. Astonishingly, they have the ...

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 ...