Cities Face Rising Flood, Drought Risk Even With No Climate Change March 6, 2015 A heads-up to New York, Baltimore, Houston and Miami: a new study suggests that these metropolitan areas and others will...
Drought Prompts Disaster Declaration for Most of Nevada February 10, 2015 The U.S. Agriculture Department has declared most of Nevada a natural disaster area due to lingering drought. And state water...
Weather in U.S. in 2014 Not too Bad January 9, 2015 By SETH BORENSTEIN On a day when much of the U.S. struggled with cold, U.S. meteorologists said America’s weather in 2014 wasn’t really...
Dry Southern California Weather Raises Fire Danger November 25, 2014 Red flag warnings for fire danger are in effect for parts of Southern California due to gusty Santa Ana winds...
Dry September Diminishes Oklahoma’s Drought Recovery October 3, 2014 A drier than normal September has diminished drought recovery in Oklahoma, and weather experts say the dry pattern will continue...
Rapid City Lowers Fire Danger After Record-Setting Rainfall October 3, 2014 September rainfall in western South Dakota broke a century-old Rapid City record, according to the National Weather Service. About 5.2...
Drought Likely Cause of Mt. Shasta Mudslide September 24, 2014 The largest mudslide on Northern California’s Mt. Shasta in two decades may be related to California’s prolonged drought, experts said...
Record Amount of Retardant Used in Northern California Wildfire September 22, 2014 By RAQUEL MARIA DILLION and GILLIAN FLACCUS Firefighters are dropping record-breaking amounts of retardants on a massive Northern California wildfire that is burning explosively because of the...
Researchers Developing Tool to Help Oklahoma Farmers Predict Drought September 9, 2014 Weather researchers are developing a new tool they say could give Oklahoma farmers and ranchers as much as a month’s...
Huge Water Loss Due to Western U.S. Drought August 27, 2014 About 63 trillion gallons of water have been lost to drought in the western United States, enough to blanket the...