A winter storm developing across the South on Tuesday will bring the risk of severe storms to over 15 million people living along the Gulf Coast, including in Houston, New Orleans and Mobile, Ala. Forecasters with the National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center warned people in the region early Tuesday to anticipate potentially damaging winds…
An outbreak of severe weather swept the South on Thursday, bringing strong winds and possible tornadoes to parts of Alabama and Mississippi, damaging homes and leaving thousands without power. The threat of severe weather and tornadoes was expected to continue into the night, officials said. Video shared online by the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency showed…
After several years of intense drought, California is now being pummeled by weeks of heavy rain. As the state’s residents are discovering, the two opposite meteorological conditions can combine to make for severe mudslides. In a prolonged drought, soils dry out, harden and become less permeable to water, said Dan Shugar, a geoscientist at the…