It may not be hurricane season, but Air Force and NOAA aircraft are still busy collecting data over the Pacific from November to March.
Wednesday to protect Californians by supporting emergency relief efforts and essentially keeping an "all hands on deck," mentality. Atmospheric rivers are streams of water vapor that carry 25 times the water equivalent of the Mississippi River.
Flowing at an altitude of about 10,000 feet, atmospheric rivers average between 100 and 500 miles wide and 2,000 miles long. Where they hit the West Coast determines where heavy rain, snow, and flooding occurs. Atmospheric rivers are also critical to water supply, and improved forecasts of where atmospheric rivers will make landfall are vital for more effective management of reservoirs.
An atmospheric river is sometimes called a "pineapple express" because the system originates and its moisture builds up near the Hawaiian Islands.
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