'Atmospheric inversion' may help predict when a humid heat wave will break

A long stretch of humid heat followed by intense thunderstorms is a weather pattern historically seen mostly in and around ...

Atmospheric river to keep pushing rain, snow into Utah after solid New Year storm

After a strong start to the calendar year, Utah is looking a stormy week ahead, as an atmospheric river moves through the ...

Surfing generates nearly $200 million a year for Santa Cruz — and coastal changes could put it at risk

Surfing generates nearly $200 million a year for Santa Cruz, but a new report warns that climate change and coastal planning ...
Yardbarker

Hypnotic River Wave Creates Rare Scientific Phenomenon (Video)

Sometimes in surfing, everything falls into place, the stars align, blessings bestowed from the surf gods, etc. And it turns out, such rare occasions happen at novelty waves, too. Like Aliso Creek in ...
NPR

Surf's down! Munich, until now an inland surfing hotspot, has lost its biggest wave

MUNICH — "It was gnarly. Dangerous. Only the most experienced could surf it," says Jakob Netzer of what local surfers have come to call the "E1," an ever-churning wave along a mountain stream that ...
Smithsonian Magazine

How Landlocked Idaho Became a Leader in Urban Surfing

Boise’s wave park is attracting outdoor adventurers—and the innovative public works project is inspiring other cities Carley D. Thornell - Freelance travel writer Boise Whitewater Park includes two ...
KOB 4

No surfing in the Four Corners

FARMINGTON, N.M. – “When is Farmington going to be surfable again?” doesn’t sound like your usual New Mexico question at first. It’s a question many people in the Four Corners region are asking after ...
Hartford Courant

Munich’s famous river wave has vanished after a cleanup. Surfers hope it will return soon

MUNICH (AP) — Germany’s famous river-surfing wave in Munich has mysteriously disappeared, leaving Bavarian surfers high and dry for the first time in decades. The Isar River’s man-made Eisbach (icy ...