Storms like the one pounding California this week are becoming more intense and cost Western states roughly $1 billion in damage annually, according to a report on the weather phenomenon.
Both events caused over $1 billion in damage.
Though rainfall rates were a bit weaker than the onslaught originally forecast by meteorologists, the storm still left a mark. Atmospheric rivers like this one are a concentrated line of water vapor in the middle and lower atmospheric levels. The continuous stream of moisture pushes across the ocean until it encounters an obstacle, such as the coastal ranges of the Western U.S., which then causes the atmospheric river to unleash its load of moisture.In 2016, a series of larger atmospheric riversof their annual precipitation, increasing snowpack levels and filling basins.
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