Fear is setting in around several towns in the San Bernardino Mountains near Los Angeles as snow continues to fall, blocking key roads, trapping residents in their homes, and preventing children from returning to the city.
A family is grateful to those who found their dog that vanished during recent mudslides in the Inland Empire area of California.
At least 117 people died this week in floods and landslides that swept through the historic mountain city of Petropolis north of Rio de Janeiro, the Associated Press (AP) reported Thursday.
Severe storms caused floods and landslides across southwestern Japan this week, killing at least one person as of Friday and forcing tens of thousands to evacuate, Japan’s Mainichi Shimbun newspaper reported.
Warnings have been posted for the risk of mudslides in areas that burned in last year’s wildfires, as bone-dry California looks forward to its best week of rain and snow this winter.
The death toll in the mudslides in Montecito, California, rose to 17 on Wednesday, with over a dozen people still considered missing as rescue crews rushed to save those still trapped by the debris.
A strengthening La Niña weather pattern has brought cooler temperatures to the world — except in California, where it is expected to be dry and warm for the next three months.
The massive winter storm hitting California this weekend and early this week, powered by an “atmospheric river” of moisture from the Pacific Ocean, forced the closure of many Lake Tahoe ski resorts Sunday due to extreme weather conditions.
Powerful rain storms brought on by El Niño battered California on Tuesday, causing headache-inducing road closures; mud and debris flows; flooding; and the opening of a half-dozen temporary shelters for the state’s homeless.
Video of last week’s flash flood and mudslides north of Los Angeles shows the first hand account of several occupants inside a vehicle caught up in a sweeping flow of sludge on October 15.
The death toll from a massive mudslide that practically wiped out a town in northwest Colombia rose to at least 78 people after rescuers recovered 17 bodies on Tuesday, a day after the natural disaster struck, according to Colombian officials.
A storm brought on by an atmospheric river – a ribbon of water vapor extending thousands of miles from the tropics to the West Coast – will bring drenching rains to Northern California after a record dry January in the region.
