Following storms, California is increasing its forecast of water supplies this year. The federal government also increased water projections for agriculture.

Storm and surf forecasts in California will become less accurate this year when federal funding for a network of ocean buoys disappears in September.

The cutoff low will pull in some subtropical moisture from the Gulf of California, a necessary ingredient for thunderstorms. Precipitable water, a measure of atmospheric moisture, is predicted to ...

Water conflicts are inevitable in dry California, but such conflicts with deteriorating ecosystems and climate conditions ...

Northern California is primed to get three atmospheric river storms, according to Courtney Carpenter, a meteorologist with the weather service’s Sacramento office.

However, the forecast could change if the water temperatures in the Pacific undergo a drastic change. If the warmest waters shift east, Pastelok warned, California could experience a dry, warm ...

The Sierra Nevada snowpack provides around 30 percent of California's water needs. In the spring, the snow melts and supplements local rivers and reservoirs to carry them through the dry summer ...

Total Gulf of California catches, for example, went from more than 100,000 tons during a 1996-1997 La Niña pattern — characterized by calmer, milder weather — to 3,000 tons the next season ...