Winter storm warning issued for West Slope Northern Sierra Nevada from Monday to Wednesday, according to the NWS
A winter storm warning was issued by the NWS Sacramento CA on Sunday at 1:05 p.m. valid from Monday 1 p.m. until Wednesday 10 ...
Storms could bring up to 15 inches of rain to parts of northern California
Rain fell across northern California on Saturday and could continue for days with an atmospheric river hanging over the ...
Ask the Meteorologist: What is an atmospheric river, and will we see one this week?
Places like California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah and Nevada are (somewhat) used to this sort of phenomenon. You can ...
Man rescued from Sierra Nevada after falling, sliding hundreds of feet
A 70-year-old man snowshoeing in the Sierra was rescued by a California Highway Patrol helicopter after falling more than two ...
Trump opened the ‘valve’ on California water. It will probably be wasted.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has released water from two reservoirs in the foothills of the southern Sierra Nevada to ...
Atmospheric river signals radical shift in the weather for Tahoe this weekend
After weeks of dry weather, an atmospheric river event begins Friday, kicking off a dramatic flip in the forecast for Lake ...
California snowpack falls well below average in January. Will back-to-back Sierra storms help?
California’s snowpack is “behind the 8-ball” but water officials are hopeful that a pair of storms sweeping through Northern California starting Friday will boost storage in the Sierra Nevada, which ...
Deep beneath California's Sierra Nevada, Earth's lithosphere may be peeling away
The processes that form continental crust from the denser basaltic rocks of the upper mantle may make the lower lithosphere ...
Latest snowpack survey reveals California could be in for extremely dry year
California’s snowpack has fallen well below average following an extremely dry January, according to the Department of Water ...
Here’s looking at shrew: How college students got first-ever photos of elusive California mammal
Three college students found a way to take photos of the Mt. Lyell shrew, which has never been photographed in the 100 years ...
A series of atmospheric rivers bringing heavy snow and rain to the West
In the northern Sierra Nevada, snow will fall in feet — not inches. And in the Northern California Coastal Range, a general 5 to 10 inches of rain is expected to fall.