Torrential downpours caused flooding across the country today, closing a motorway, disrupting train services and leaving thousands of people preparing to evacuate their homes. The Environment Agency issued more than 40 flood warnings and over 120 less serious flood alerts as a month’s rain fell in just 24 hours. Motorists battled with treacherous conditions on the roads, and the M50… Read more →
The latest weekly U.S. Drought Monitor report, released Thursday morning, shows drought encompassing more of the contiguous U.S. than at any other time since the report’s debut in January 2000. The analysis, compiled by the National Drought Mitigation Center, shows 55.96% of the 48 states (excluding Alaska and Hawaii) in some stage of drought, breaking the previous high of 54.79%… Read more →
The amber alert covers much of north-east England, where the Met Office has warned there could be flooding and disruption on Friday and Saturday. More than 60mm (2.4 inches) of rain is expected to fall in 36 hours in some areas, approaching the 69.9mm (2.8 inches) UK average rainfall for the month of July. The average July rainfall for the… Read more →
(CBS News) SALT LAKE CITY – Two new wildfires were burning in Utah Tuesday, and officials said one of them was sparked by gunfire. Recreational shooting is being blamed for at least 20 fires this year in the state. It’s an activity long enjoyed and fervently protected by enthusiasts — but firing a gun near the high and dry grass… Read more →
A magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck off the coast of New Zealand Tuesday sending shock waves into its capital city of Wellington, the U.S. Geological Survey reported on its website. Its epicenter was between the country’s two large islands at a depth of 147 miles, Reuters reported. The New Zealand Herald reported residents across the country felt long rumblings and a fire department… Read more →
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., June 28 – A wildfire that forced the evacuation of 35,000 people from the edge of Colorado’s second-largest city has killed at least one person and incinerated 346 homes, making it the most destructive blaze in state history, officials said on Thursday. Lighter winds helped firefighters gain new ground against the inferno, which had roared unchecked on… Read more →
The drought in the U.S. Midwest that has pushed up corn prices 28 percent since June 15 may eventually rival a dry period in 1988 that cost agriculture $78 billion, a government meteorologist said. This year’s weather pattern, which settled into the Great Plains and the Southwest last year and has spread into the Corn Belt, resembles those of a quarter… Read more →
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated and multiple homes destroyed as a growing wildfire races through Colorado Springs in a scene Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper described as “like looking at a military invasion.” KDVR reports as of Tuesday night the El Paso County Sheriff says more than 32,000 people have been evacuated from the… Read more →
(multimedia) Debby is forecast to continue moving very slowly through Wednesday. The tropical storm has dumped as much as 20 inches of rain on parts of northern Florida.
Rates of sea level rise are increasing three-to-four times faster along portions of the U.S. Atlantic Coast than globally, according to a new U.S. Geological Survey report published in Nature Climate Change. Since about 1990, sea-level rise in the 600-mile stretch of coastal zone from Cape Hatteras, N.C. to north of Boston, Mass. — coined a “hotspot” by scientists —… Read more →
