2 deaths in California blamed on heavy rain that sparked flooding – CBS News Watch CBS News Parts of California saw a month’s worth of rain in one day, and two deaths are being blamed on the heavy rainfall and the flooding it triggered. Andrew Kozak has more. Source link
Iran faces a water crisis amid its worst drought in at least six decades. Reservoirs in the country’s capital have dipped to historically low levels. One of the five major dams that helps supply water to over 10 million people in Tehran has nearly run dry. Overnight water rationing has begun there, and government officials…
Residents brace for possible mudslides in burn scars of Los Angeles fires – CBS News Watch CBS News A slow-moving storm is expected to bring heavy rain to Southern California, and that could mean flooding and mudslides. Carter Evans has the latest and Lonnie Quinn has the forecast. Source link
The remnant storms of Typhoon Halong tore into western Alaska with such ferocity that they pulled Steven Anaver’s home from its foundation and buoyed it across choppy water — with him inside. “I was inches away from death,” he wrote on Facebook. The storms’ blistering winds and record-high water levels laid waste to several small…
The remnants of Typhoon Halong brought hurricane-force winds and catastrophic flooding to coastal communities in western Alaska on Sunday, pushing entire houses off their foundations. Rescue aircraft were dispatched to the tiny Alaskan villages of Kipnuk and Kwigillingok, where there were reports of up to 20 people possibly unaccounted for, said Jeremy Zidek, spokesperson…
Coral reefs around the globe have for years suffered publicly in warming oceans, periodically making headlines when iconic underwater landscapes lose their colors and wither during repeated mass bleaching events caused by climate change. Now, reefs are the first environmental system on Earth to pass a climate “tipping point,” according to a new report by…
A deadly tornado that ripped through a rural city in North Dakota in June has been upgraded to an EF-5, the National Weather Service said Monday, marking the first U.S. twister with an EF-5 rating in 12 years. The federal agency’s Grand Forks, North Dakota, facility estimates the twister that touched down in the southeast…
Deadly flooding in Arizona with intense weather threats across the U.S. – CBS News Watch CBS News Powerful monsoon rains in the Southwest are blamed for several deaths in Arizona. The fast-rising water caused flash flooding and chaos. Meteorologist Andrew Kozak has the forecast. Source link
Tropical Storm Humberto, the eighth named storm to emerge this hurricane season, is currently swirling over waters just north of the Caribbean. Although forecasts as of Thursday predict that Humberto won’t ever touch land, there is a possibility it could interact with another system developing nearby in the western Atlantic. That’s an unlikely outcome, said…
Tracking potential storm threats in Atlantic – CBS News Watch CBS News CBS News meteorologist Rob Marciano reports on the potential path and outlook of Tropical Storm Humberto and other storms in the Atlantic. Source link