A rare pair of atmospheric rivers have formed off Australia this week, channelling tropical moisture to both sides of the nation.Atmospheric rivers channel moisture from the tropics to the mid-latitudesAtmospheric rivers, sometimes referred to as cloud bands, are ribbons of water vapour stretching thousands of kilometres from the tropics to southern states, transporting vast quantities of water.
In Western Australia, a particular kind of atmospheric river called a northwest cloud band has formed, stretching from deep in the tropical Indian Ocean all the way to the Nullarbor coast. At the same time, a second atmospheric river has formed off Australia's east coast, feeding warm moisture into the storm"That cloud band extends all the way back to Papua New Guinea," Mr Narramore said.Kimberley Reid is a scientist from the University of Melbourne and expert in atmospheric rivers.Ms Reid estimated the northwest cloud band off WA is transporting more than two Amazon rivers worth of water over the state.
"We found that since about the mid-1980s, there's been an increase in northwest cloud bands of about one per year, over about 30 years.""There's actually an atmospheric river in the United States that has its own name — 'The Pineapple Express' — that transports water from Hawaii all the way to California," she said.
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