This story was updated to correct spelling in headline. An atmospheric phenomenon called a Pineapple Express is expected to bring heavy rains and snowfall to California and the Northwest this week.

Light rain continued to fall across Southern California on Wednesday afternoon as the first in a series of Pacific storm ...

The first of two “Pineapple Express” storms arrived in Southern California early Wednesday after delivering a stronger-than-expected pounding to Northern California, breaking rainfall records ...

Call it an atmospheric river, a Pineapple Express or just weather, but some parts of California and the U.S. Northwest are being slammed by up to foot of rain before the storm runs out of moisture ...