
(AFP) – The British government is to review its flood defences after a powerful storm caused severe flooding, swamping hundreds of homes, Prime Minister David Cameron said Monday. The Conservative leader visited Carlisle, a city in the hard-hit Cumbria region
by AFP8 Dec 2015, 1:59 AM PST0

Despite El Niño generating three times the amount of snow in Mammoth in the first half of this month as it did for the entire month of November last year, California’s failure to build infrastructure means most rain will be lost to run-off and flooding.
by Chriss W. Street16 Nov 2015, 5:30 AM PST0

SAN DIEGO, CA — Torrential rainfall and flooding struck San Diego amidst thunder and lightning on Tuesday night leaving cars stranded and thousands without power. Several cars were left stuck and some floating in floodwaters off highway 94 on Federal Blvd.,
by Michelle Moons4 Nov 2015, 2:00 AM PST0

Scientists are questioning California Gov. Jerry Brown’s judgment on the environment–for the second time in as many weeks.
by Joel B. Pollak1 Nov 2015, 6:00 AM PST0

Deadly sea snakes showed up this week on a California beach for the first time in over thirty years thanks to warm El Niño waters. Ana Iker was walking down the Silver Strand beach in Oxnard on Thursday with her
by Michelle Moons17 Oct 2015, 4:56 PM PST0

Nikki Haley, the governor of South Carolina, has described the floods which have inundated her state as a “thousand year” event.
by James Delingpole6 Oct 2015, 1:15 PM PST0

Though it now appears that Hurricane Joaquin won’t make landfall on the United States, it will likely coincide with a storm that will bring a “thousand-year rainfall.”
by Warner Todd Huston2 Oct 2015, 3:37 PM PST0

On July 26, one Kentucky man on the way home from church with his pregnant wife in the pouring rain saw an American flag on the ground and instinctively pulled his car over to pick it up and fold it.
by William Bigelow15 Aug 2015, 2:51 PM PST0

With Los Angeles receiving small amounts of rain on three separate days last week, red crabs washing ashore in Orange County, and three simultaneous typhoons in the western Pacific Ocean in early July, El Niño (“little boy”) is beginning to crank up
by Chriss W. Street12 Jul 2015, 5:37 AM PST0

On Wednesday evening, President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama welcomed a troop of Girl Scouts on the White House lawn to pitch their tents for a camping event.
by Charlie Spiering1 Jul 2015, 5:21 AM PST0

Flurries continue to blanket the east coast while sunny southern California continues to thirst for rain–and the forecast for the drought-stricken state isn’t too promising.
by Michelle Moons16 Feb 2015, 2:08 PM PST0

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.
by Daniel Nussbaum6 Feb 2015, 1:42 PM PST0

California’s December rainstorms are long forgotten. Two separate federal agencies predicted this weekend that the three-year-old drought plaguing the Golden State will continue, at least across most of the state.
by Daniel Nussbaum18 Jan 2015, 11:47 AM PST0