As heavy rainfall drenched Southern California on Wednesday, large concrete planters came crashing down at a shopping mall in Rolling Hills Estates. Around 60 to 80 feet of dirt-filled planters and flower boxes tumbled over a parking lot entrance at Promenade on the Peninsula around 2 p.m. A witness, Dana Graham, was sitting in his […]
The world’s forests are under threat. As well as being logged for timber and cleared to make way for agriculture, rising global temperatures are causing more intense wildfires. This year is set to be the hottest on record and has been the worst on record in terms of fires in boreal forests worldwide. Re-forestation is […]
More than 260,000 homes and businesses in Massachusetts are without power Monday as a strong storm lashes the region with wind-driven rain. According to the MEMA Power Outages tracker, there were 261,090 outages across the Bay State as of 12 p.m. Town-by-town damage reports: Toppled trees, downed power lines as storm wreaks havoc on Mass. […]
As much as 4.5 inches of rain are expected Sunday night into Monday morning, as a powerful storm rolls into North Jersey just in time for the Monday commute. Forecasters expect no snow to speak of, said Bryan Ramsey, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service office in Upton, New York. But the rain is […]
Cities along the East Coast are preparing for a major storm system expected to hit with torrential rain, high winds and severe thunderstorms. The system battered Florida and South Carolina this weekend, and its impacts are expected to last through Monday. The rain brought coastal flooding to into the Tampa Bay area on Saturday, according […]
Dec. 17—Weather over the next two days will be wet, but the forecast is not calling for snow or ice. AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Tom Kines said rain should start by this afternoon and stick around for “quite a while” into tonight. Temperatures should remain around 50 degrees and rain accumulation should be between 1.5 and […]
Brevard County saw record amounts of rain as a strong, no-named storm that stirred to life in the Gulf of Mexico battered Florida’s west coast and pushed northward, leaving behind strong winds and pounding surf. There were no major reports of any damage or flooding in Brevard or tornadoes across the state as meteorologists feared […]
Eastern Pennsylvania, including Carbon, Monroe, Pike and Wayne counties, is under a flood watch starting Sunday afternoon. The southern Poconos and northern New Jersey could receive up to 4 inches of rain, according to a Sunday morning update from the Philadelphia/Mount Holly National Weather Service office. “The ground is more saturated due to heavier rain […]
The rain Saturday broke multiple records for rainfall totals in Central Florida. â–¶ WATCH CHANNEL 9 EYEWITNESS NEWS Most counties saw 2 to 5 inches of rainfall Saturday afternoon and evening. Some communities in Marion and Flagler counties had more than 5 inches of rain. Areas in Flagler County were reporting ponding on roadways. Read: Powerball: […]
Southern California’s weather is about to take a turn for the wet. An atmospheric river event will arrive on Sunday and bring the potential for rain each day through next week, meteorologists say. The first and the weaker of two storms arrives on Sunday and, according to the National Weather Service, will bring light rain […]
As Columbus Crew and LAFC prepare to meet in the 28th edition of the MLS Cup Saturday, US soccer’s crown-jewel showdown has come a long way since its inaugural final back in 1996, played between DC United and LA Galaxy on a rain-soaked pitch in Foxborough, Massachusetts. Yet despite the unquestionable uptick in quality of […]
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Authorities in Oregon were investigating the deaths of two people whose bodies were found in creeks this week as an atmospheric river brought heavy rain, flooding and unseasonably warm temperatures to the Pacific Northwest. The U.S. Coast Guard rescued five people from flooded areas on Tuesday and the conditions also closed […]