EARTH OBSERVATION In Atmospheric River Storms, Wind Is a Risk, Too

In Atmospheric River Storms, Wind Is a Risk, Too Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 22, 2017 - Atmospheric river storms are hailed as drought-busters when they bring needed rain and snow, but they have a well-known dark side: damaging floods. A new NASA study documents a second destructive force in these storms: high winds. The study shows that atmospheric rivers were associated with almost half of the most extreme mid-latitude windstorms globally for the past 20 years, doing billio ... morehttp://www.spacedaily.com/reports/In_Atmospheric_River_Storms_Wind_Is_a_Risk_Too_999.html