Waves of intense weather were moving east across the South on Wednesday, bringing flash flooding and tornadoes to cities along the Gulf Coast, with the potential for more destructive winds still looming, the National Weather Service said. A flash flood emergency was declared in the New Orleans area, where the Weather Service said many roads…
The Agriculture Department said on Tuesday that low-income women and children eligible for a food aid program would receive more cash for purchases of fruits and vegetables, with less assistance available for milk. The final rule by the department puts the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, a federally funded program known…
Clearing skies over northwestern Nevada on Monday may permit the mass exodus of tens of thousands of people from the Burning Man festival, where they have been stranded for days after torrential rain swept the event’s remote desert location, organizers said. The improved forecast may also allow for the traditional climax to the celebration of…
Typhoon Mawar passed just north of Guam on Wednesday night, bringing hurricane-force winds, lightning, heavy rain and widespread power outages to nearly all of the U.S. Pacific territory. “This is kind of going to be a long night,” a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Guam said during a news briefing. “It is going…
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…
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…