A powerful winter storm sweeping the West Coast walloped areas of the region unaccustomed to snow and wintry mix, paralyzing parts of Portland, Ore., before shifting south toward California. Forecasters in Oregon said the storm was continuing to “overperform” in terms of snowfall in areas of the state Thursday morning. On Wednesday, the storm produced…
Blizzard warnings were issued for more two million people across the United States this week, some in places you’d expect, like Minnesota, and some in places you probably would not, like the mountains around Los Angeles. Almost all of the country is experiencing some form of notable weather this week, meteorologists said. While much of…
A major winter storm will unfold over the northern part of the United States this week, bringing a mixed bag of precipitation that will be “extremely disruptive,” forecasters said.The storm was taking shape in the West by Tuesday morning. More than 30 million people were under winter weather alerts in a nearly continuous stretch from…
SAN MATEO, Calif. — More than two weeks of storms have already hammered California, and one more is on the way over the holiday weekend. The relentless downpours and their impact — flooded homes, flattened cars, downed power lines and more — have killed at least 19 people and disrupted the lives of millions more…
CARPINTERIA, Calif. — As rain lashed Southern California overnight, parts of the Los Angeles area experienced flooding — an unusual twist for a typically dry, sunny place where people tend to worry about droughts. Forecasters warned that little relief was expected on Tuesday. Rainfall in many parts of the state has exceeded a foot since…
CARPINTERIA, Calif. — As California reeled from another bout of extremely wet weather on Monday night, most of Los Angeles County was under a flash flood warning — an unusual twist for a dry, sunny place where the concern is typically a lack of water. The flash flood warning for southwestern Los Angeles County was…
And with more storms on the horizon, the mountains could see more rain that may lead to flooding. “Now that we have a saturated snowpack, we’re probably not going to get a lot more storage from the rain that falls on it,” said Andrew Schwartz, the lead scientist and manager at the Central Sierra Snow…
CHICAGO — A frigid winter storm pummeled the United States for a third day on Friday, leaving more than one million homes and businesses without power, causing crashes and epic delays on ice-slicked expressways and stranding thousands of travelers at airports just before Christmas. Most of the country shared in the misery whether from snow,…
Forecasters were warning of near-blizzard like conditions in Tulsa, Okla, with wind gusts up to 40 miles per hour. The governor had declared a state of emergency. An Arctic front bringing a “once-in-a-generation” winter storm was closing in. Andrew Messersmith, a 22-year-old senior at the University of Oklahoma, set out Thursday morning, for a 1,100…
A perilous brew of winds, heavy snow and ice and plunging temperatures swept across a swath of the United States on Thursday, leaving at least five dead and upending holiday plans during one of the busiest weeks for travel. By Thursday evening, the storm had bulled its way from the Upper Midwest — where it…