British Columbia

This was the term we were using locally since I was a kid, recently everyone’s been making an effort to refer to the phenomenon by the meteorological name, atmospheric river, but Pineapple Express is still pretty embedded with a lot of people that have been hearing and using it for 20+ years.

For the locals, the original term actually conveys the meaning better because the new term, while more widely known worldwide, is not as widely known locally.