Places like California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah and Nevada are (somewhat) used to this sort of phenomenon. You can ...

An atmospheric river is essentially a narrow band of Pacific moisture, water vapor, that is funneled into a long narrow flow. These rivers transport tropical moisture to higher latitudes ...

An atmospheric river is moving through the Lake Tahoe and Reno in the following days, but what does that mean?

AND THIS IS WHY WE’LL DO A LITTLE ATMOSPHERIC ... by Sunday but water will stay within the banks of those waterways. A forecast for the Cosumnes River shows the water level around seven feet ...