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2. Atmospheric river - Wikipedia

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   Atmospheric rivers have a central role in the global water cycle. On any given day, atmospheric rivers account for over 90% of the global meridional (north-south) water vapor transport, yet they cover less than 10% of any given extratropical line of latitude. [4] Atmospheric rivers are also known to contribute to about 22% of total global ...

3. Mayurakshi River - Wikipedia

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   Many of the rivers that originate on the Chota Nagpur Plateau, including the Mayurakshi, and flow down into West Bengal are rain fed and have for ages wrought havoc with their seasonal floods. Annual rainfall over the basin varies between 765 and 1,607 millimetres (30 and 63 in) with an average of 1,200 millimetres (47 in) of which 80 percent ...

4. Atmospheric river to unleash flooding rain, mudslide and ...

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   Storms this week have generally brought 0.50 of an inch to 2 inches of rain to lower elevations of western Washington and Oregon prior to Friday. ... with 6-12 inches along the west-facing slopes ...

5. List of rivers that have reversed direction - Wikipedia

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   A number of rivers are known to have reversed the direction of their flow, either permanently or temporarily, in response to geological activity, weather events, climate change, tides, or direct human intervention.

6. Two people dead after heavy flooding as storm continues to ...

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   An atmospheric river brought heavy rain, serious mountain snow and strong winds to California that flooded roads and rivers and triggered landslides, with at least two storm-related deaths ...

7. Pacific Northwest water resource region - Wikipedia

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   These geographic areas contain either the drainage area of a major river, or the combined drainage areas of a series of rivers. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Pacific Northwest region, which is listed with a 2-digit hydrologic unit code (HUC) of 17, has an approximate size of 302,334 square miles (783,040 square kilometers ), and consists of 12 subregions ...