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What's an atmospheric river? AP explains the weather phenomenon

Posted 12/22/25

Atmospheric rivers are long and relatively narrow bands of water vapor that form over an ocean and flow through the sky. They carry moisture from the tropics to northern and southern latitudes, and …

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