Sentences with phrase «what atmospheric rivers»

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«Drought - busting rainfall this month, which also compromised the U.S.'s tallest dam, has been associated with these atmospheric rivers or what some call the Pineapple Express,» said J. Marshall Shepherd, Georgia Athletic Association Distinguished Professor and director of the atmospheric sciences program at UGA.

What that means, he said, is that atmospheric rivers will determine whether California has enough water to survive the climate of the future.

What is pretty clear, though, is that this year's extreme wetness on the seasonal scale has pushed parts of California's aging water infrastructure to the brink — and had even a single additional warm, wet atmospheric river come ashore during the peak of winter, the overall flood situation might have been considerably more serious.