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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 National Weather Service is in hot water for sending out a tsunami alert that was mistakenly advanced as a real warning.

California is facing the prospect of a very dry winter, a year after one of the wettest winters on record, renewing fears of a devastating drought that gripped the state from 2011 to 2016.

CalFire has officially named the Wine Country’s Tubbs Fire as the most destructive in California history, with the Nuns Fire and the Atlas Fire ranked as sixth and tenth worst fires.

Nearly six million Floridians have been ordered to evacuate as a catastrophically dangerous Hurricane Irma prepares to turn its sights on the Sunshine State. Governor Rick Scott told those in the path of the storm, “leave now.”

Bands of rain from Tropical Storm Harvey reach hundreds of miles northward and are spawning tornados. A Twitter user captured a twister just northwest of Houston.

HOUSTON, TX — Parts of Texas may become inhabitable for weeks or months according to a Friday morning statement from the National Weather Service. Hurricane-force winds and torrential rains expected to last for five days or more could cause parts of the Lone Star State to become unhabitable due to structure damage, lack of utilities and safe drinking water, and major flooding conditions, the National Weather Service wrote in an advisory late on Friday morning. Hurricane Harvey is expected to cross the Texas shoreline late Friday evening or early Saturday morning–a major and potentially catastrophic Category 3 storm.

The “flash drought” in the upper plains states, and rising temperatures in the Equatorial Pacific, are warnings that another El Niño is forming that could slam the West Coast this winter with heavy rainfall, widespread flooding and infrastructure failure risks.

Torrential rains and extreme flooding have torn open a huge hole in the Oroville Dam, as California “extreme drought” conditions plummeted from 62 percent a year ago to less than 1 percent.

California, and especially the state’s North Coast region, has experienced “the wettest winter” in decades, thanks to recent steady rains. Local weather has featured widespread flooding, power outages, high tides, falling trees, school closures and even a tornado.

The National Weather Service issued a statement indicating there is no tsunami threat for the West Coast following the 7.3 magnitude earthquake that struck off Japan’s eastern coast, near Fukushima.

A Texas sheriff and a justice of the peace, along with other officials, were out with first responders to help rescue seniors and other flood victims hit by massive flooding in the Houston area.

HOUSTON, Texas — Whataburger, a Texas favorite, is providing uniformed first responders in the flooded city a free meal at all Houston locations until midnight, April 23rd.

Hailstones measuring three inches in diameter fell near the city of Red Bluff in northern California on Saturday, tying a record for the largest-sized hail to hit anywhere in the state in more than 50 years.

The Pacific El Niño has battered California with much-needed rainstorms, leading to record rainfall in some areas–but state farmers are unlikely to see any water deliveries from federal agencies for a third straight year.

A second day of powerful storms unleashed by El Niño brought flooding, power outages and heavy snowfall to drought-ravaged California.

Plentiful snow in the Sierra Nevada mountains this week has brought good tidings for drought-ravaged California–but less pleasant news for millions of motorists who will take to the state’s main interstate for Christmas travel. Snowpack levels for the mountain range

Unusually high tides known as “king tides” struck parts of California on Tuesday, causing flooding in some areas and raising the possibility of dangerous rip currents along the coast.

Southern California motorists were left stranded on highways Thursday, as drenching rain and golf ball-sized hail bore down on the area, causing dangerous flash flooding.

The Montana and Wyoming Rockies have been hit with what forecasters have called an “exceptional” and rare July cold front that has blanketed the region in a heavy snowfall.

An El Niño forming off of the Pacific Coast could morph into the largest weather event of its kind in recorded history.

With Tuna Crabs overrunning San Diego beaches in the first signs that an El Niño weather condition is bearing down on the Western United States, the Obama Administration raised this year’s federal emergency drought funding for the seven Western states to $300 million. After limited aid during two years of inaction, the Obama Administration is going all-in for drought relief, just as El Niño’s torrential rains will soon arrive.

A short-lived but deadly tornado struck the town of Cisco, Texas, Saturday afternoon. The tornado killed at least one person and sent another to the hospital with critical injuries.

Breitbart News is providing live coverage of Winter Storm Juno, which has brought significant snowfall to much of the Northeast, impacting major cities including New York and Boston. 4:15 PM EST: The places where Winter Storm Juno did decide to settle in and make

NEW YORK (AP) — A “potentially historic” storm could dump 2 to 3 feet of snow from northern New Jersey to Connecticut starting Monday, crippling a region that has largely been spared so far this winter, the National Weather Service said.

On Tuesday, the Pacific Ocean breached a seawall at San Francisco’s Embarcadero, causing minor flooding and inconveniencing those traveling along the shoreline. Rising along with the tide was discussion over the provocative global warming-climate change debate.