Regional Forecast Video 10+ Feet of Snow Bury California's Sierra Nevada as Heavy Rain Knocks Down Drought By Jon Erdman and Chris Dolce Jan 12 2017 08:15 PM EST weather.com Story HighlightsSnow pummeled the Sierra Nevada, some locations saw more than 10 feet of snow in just over a week.Flooding occ...

Weather Explainers Atmospheric Rivers: A Blessing and a Curse By Jon Erdman Mar 4 2016 12:00 AM EST weather.com An atmospheric river is a recently coined weather feature that is both a necessity and, all too often, a destructive menace particularly for those near the West Coast of the United States....

An atmospheric river is a narrow corridor or filament of concentrated moisture in the atmosphere . Atmospheric rivers consist of narrow bands of enhanced water vapor transport, typically along the boundaries between large areas of divergent surface air flow, including some frontal zones in associati...

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