The South Island is on track to set a single-day record for rainfall Thursday in the midst of a historically dry June.
On Wednesday, a new precipitation record was measured in Oslo with 22 millimeters in 10 minutes. "We had expected rain showers, but not that it would be so heavy," says state meteorologist.
Strong southerly winds brought moisture from the central Pacific in to the King Cove area. The FAA weather station at the King Cove airport recorded 4.93" of rain from the early morning of June 25 through the early morning of June 28, and half of that total (2.49") fell in 12 hours from late evening on the 26th to late morning on the 27th, and resulted in flooding.
Lake Erie, the fourth-largest of the five Great Lakes, has broken the water level record set in 1986.
Not seen in at least my 15 years in Yellowknife.
Queens are usually out and about at this time of year feeding up on nectar and preparing to nest for the summer. Things are disappointingly quiet this spring, and last summer’s endless rain is the likely reason.
Ottawa River water levels in the city are all now higher then they were in 2017, which is the record-setting benchmark the city has been using throughout the flooding.
Trees and wires came down early Monday morning as rain poured down and wind whipped across Massachusetts, the National Weather Service said.
Huge snow over the past few months has provided incredible relief to the drought situation that has plagued Colorado throughout the last year.
Firefighters were battling a blaze in Alexandra, City of Johannesburg emergency services said on Tuesday.
Storms battered the southern Bering Sea and the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta last month. February storms aren’t unusual, but the amount of rain and flooding is. The combination caused a lot of damage for two communities in the region.
Back-to-back blizzards with tons of snow and high winds have hammered Nome since late January and the accumulation of a total of 76 inches of snow is now beginning to take a toll on residents.
The snow began falling in early February and hardly let up until the last day of the month, setting records at local ski resorts and causing havoc across the
The latest storm to hit the Truckee-Tahoe area dropped another 30 inches of snow at Squaw Valley’s upper mountain, breaking the record at the resort for most snowfall in February. This month, Squaw Valley has been hit with 205 inches of snow at its upper mountain and more is currently coming down. The previous record…
Snow on Haleakala?
Snow may have fallen at the lowest elevation ever observed in the state.
Deadly floods in northern Chile left homes and roads destroyed.
The state rail company VR has said that it will substitute buses on some of the cancelled rail trips.
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