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El Niño and La Niña are climate phenomena that are generally associated with wetter and drier winter conditions in the ...

An expert at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography explains the weather phenomenon that can wreak havoc across California.

The Pineapple Express is an atmospheric river in the sky that comes from the Pacific near Hawaii. When it hits the California ...

Weather balloons and “hurricane hunter” planes aid the science of understanding California’s atmospheric rivers.

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The storm brought heavy rain and high-elevation snowfall to Northern California over the weekend, and a similar one is ...