Rain

Temperature drops, rain, and snow from a cold front originating in the Gulf of Alaska started pummeling Northern California on Friday, prompting highway closures and “winter weather advisories” in the middle of spring.

New Yorkers were slammed by heavy rain overnight Monday that knocked out power and caused frustration for commuters.

Heavy rains from Typhoon Doksuri flooded western Beijing on Monday, forcing more than 30,000 people to evacuate. At least two fatalities were reported in the district of Mentougou, where the worst flooding occurred.

Residents of Montpelier, Vermont, were warned early Tuesday as a local dam filled close to capacity amid catastrophic flooding.

Residents of the Golden State spent the first full day of spring dealing with the twelfth “atmospheric river” storm of the season.

Rain and snow continue to pound California in the season’s 11th “atmospheric river,” and are bringing water in such volumes that an old inland freshwater body, Tulare Lake, could be restored for the first time in 40 years.

A winter storm is slamming residents in the Northeast and New England, causing dangerous conditions.

California’s snowpack in the Sierra Nevada and its system of dams are looking healthy in the wake of several weeks of rain and snow that defied experts’ predictions and pulled half of the state out of drought this week.

Half of the State of California is officially free from drought, thanks to a winter that has defied predictions and brought weeks of rain and snow to a state that had endured extremely dry conditions for the past three years.

The latest winter storm to hit California caused havoc on roadways Friday and filled the concrete channel of the Los Angeles River.

The California State Water Project announced Thursday that it will boost its water allocations to local agencies and users this year from 5% of the amounts requested to 30% of the amounts requested, after the recent rains.

The California town of Bridgeport, the county seat of Mono County near the Nevada border, dropped to -27º F on Saturday, as the entire state experienced colder temperature in the wake of unexpected winter rainstorms.

Legislators have written “strongly worded letters” to state and federal officials demanding to know why 95% of the rainwater that fell on California in recent weeks was allowed to wash out to sea in the California Delta.

The rain that fell on California in recent weeks could have supplied the state’s water needs for 10 years — if it had been captured and stored. Unfortunately, most of the water is being left to drain to the Pacific Ocean.

The City of San Francisco is attempting to blame the National Weather Service (NWS) for the poor local response to last week’s rains, which saw “sewer geysers” in some neighborhoods, and extensive flooding.

Historic, heavy rainfall in the San Francisco area has caused “sewer geysers” to explode on city streets, sending jets of water high into the air as the city’s overwhelmed drains cannot contain the high volume of rainwater.

California expects to be drenched by an ongoing storm that began shortly after Christmas and will last roughly 12 days before it is done, bringing nearly a foot of rain to the San Francisco Bay Area amid a severe drought.

China’s ruling Communist Party ordered its meteorological bureau to dispatch special rain-making aircraft to drought-afflicted areas of the country’s south on Tuesday as part of a wider effort to protect China’s autumn harvest from ruination by a regional heatwave that began in June, the Global Times reported.

Seoul’s government announced plans on Wednesday to ban basement apartments in the South Korean national capital — a style of subterranean home depicted in the Oscar-winning film Parasite — after four people drowned to death in such apartments in recent days during record floods, the BBC reported.

Nearly 50 people have been killed by lightning in northern India’s Uttar Pradesh state within the past week, the Associated Press (AP) reported on Thursday, noting that India has recorded almost 750 deaths from lightning strikes nationwide since April.

China’s state-run Global Times reported on Monday that 13 Chinese regions were “devastated” Sunday by floods that are projected to last through the coming days. Southern China’s annual rainy season began in recent weeks and has caused record flooding nationwide.

The United Nations warns that countries around the world need to fight climate climate by giving money to the globalist organizaton.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), is creating its own rain using drone technology that blasts clouds in an attempt to tackle a heatwave in the city regularly surpassing 122 degrees.

Officials in Shizuoka prefecture in Japan said two people were found without vital signs and approximately 20 others are still missing after mudslides hit several homes on Saturday.

Sydney Archbishop Anthony Fisher has written a special opening prayer for the “Mass for Rain” as part of a prayer campaign to beg God for rainfall.

A flash flood warning is in effect for the District of Columbia area as heavy rains soak the region on Monday morning. According to NBC 4 Washington, high water on roads brought by heavy rains left drivers stranded in their vehicles, prompting several water rescues by law enforcement.

Ski fans in California may have to make plans to stay inside over the holiday weekend because there’s too much snow on the ground.

A series of large storms continues to hit the entire state of California this week, bringing much-needed rain and snow that will guarantee the water supply — but also new hazards to areas already hit by recent natural disasters.

Parts across the Northeast United States are bracing for record cold temperatures on Thanksgiving Day, meteorologists say. 

(AP) — One of the first big storms of the season moved across the eastern half of the country, leaving five people dead and closing schools as the freakish weather brought snow as far south as Alabama.

In what is being described as a “messy mix” of snow, sleet, and freezing rain, winter appears to have come early to Washington, D.C., causing commute delays and school cancelations across the nation’s capital. 

Dam safety experts are warning that a three-day storm set to hit Northern California beginning on Thursday could risk an overflow event at the partially rebuilt Oroville Dam spillway.

A Virginia father made his ten-year-old son run to school in the rain as punishment for bullying his peers on the school bus.

The “March Miracle” storm system that has lashed California for the last four days, dumping 6 feet of snow in the Sierra Mountains, just ended what appeared to be a new drought.

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.

Half of California is officially back in drought, while the Midwest and Plains may suffer from extreme flooding, as the extreme La Niña weather condition intensifies.