Posts from ‘December, 2010’

CHICAGO – A massive storm system blanketed the central United States on Thursday, whipping up blinding blizzards and dangerously frigid temperatures. The storm stretched from New Mexico to Minnesota and was expected to continue to dump heavy snow on the region on Friday and Saturday as it made its way slowly north into Canada.

Flash floods and landslides brought on by heavy rain have forced the evacuation of about 4,000 people in the Philippines. Evacuations of flood prone areas began as early as Dec. 24 as heavy rain began to drench the island chain. Several cities have had more than 3 inches of rain since Wednesday. Legaspi has seen [...]

A snowstorm is rolling eastward through the northern Rockies and will reach the northern Plains by the end of the week. The storm is part of a vast system that is splitting in two over the West. One center will roll through the Four Corners, bringing snow to Denver and other cities.

Floodwaters have invaded at least three towns in Queensland, Australia, as waves of torrential tropical rain have swelled many of the state’s rivers. Media reports on Tuesday indicated that about 1,000 residents of the eastern state had been driven from their homes by some of the worst flooding on record.

As the blizzard continues to lift northward Monday, the storm’s full fury will focus on New England, eastern Quebec and interior New Brunswick. The snow will wind down Monday from Philadelphia to New York City, but will be raging for the better part of the day in New England.

Over half of the city of Venice was under water early Friday morning, a result of tidal flooding and locally heavy rain. Strong southerly winds, known as a sirocco wind, have been blowing since Thursday. These winds have been blowing across the Adriatic Sea, pushing water northward into the lagoon city. This has led to [...]

The relentless barrage of storms is finally over for California. The state is now dealing with the aftermath from the feet of not only snow, but also rain that was unleashed. The parade of moisture-laden Pacific storms began slamming into the West Coast late last week and took until Wednesday night to leave California.

The flooding situation will worsen across the Southwest today as the caboose of a relentless storm train swings onshore. Strong thunderstorms threaten to create additional problems. This last round of torrential rain will continue to inundate an area from central and Southern California to southwestern Utah and northwestern Arizona today. The ground across this zone [...]

The mid-Atlantic and interior New England may have missed a big snowstorm this weekend, but the storm is all the rage farther east and north this week. The storm that slipped out to sea, sparing the I-95 corridor from Washington, D.C., to New York City, hooked northwestward, slamming Cape Cod and portions of Maine with [...]

While the mountains from the Sierra Nevada to the central Rockies will steal the show with snow this week, flooding problems over the interior West will increase. The same series of storms bringing the snow are also bringing heavy rain. Away from the problems in California, enough rain (and melting snow) to cause flooding problems [...]