In mid-November 2021, a great storm begins brewing in the central Pacific Ocean north of Hawai‘i. Especially warm water, heated by the sun, steams off the sea surface and funnels into the sky. This article is from Hakai Magazine, an online … Read more
December 19, 2023 •
Rainy Day Roundup: All About Atmospheric Rivers
March 9, 2023 •
Gosh—is it raining again? When you’d rather stay inside reading about rain than go out and get wet, here’s a pile of stories from our archives.
Atmospheric Rivers Like This One are Vital to Understanding California
January 28, 2021 •
Ten days ago the state set new heat records and brush fires broke out. Burn areas in the Santa Cruz Mountains rekindled. Then, over the last three days, a 2,000-mile-long filament of water in the sky burst over the areas that last week sat brown and smoking.
West Coast doesn’t have hurricanes, it has the Pineapple Express
November 1, 2012 •
A geologist reminds us that a “Pineapple Express” could do just as much damage here as Hurricane Sandy did back East.