FOX 5 Weather forecast for Saturday, March 4
Gwen Tolbart has the FOX 5 Weather forecast for Saturday, March 4
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Fox WeatherMultiday severe weather threat looms in South for first week of spring
Spring begins the typical uptick in tornadoes across the U.S., and right on cue, a multiday severe weather threat with twisters, damaging winds and large hail looms for parts of the South in the season's first week.
- Akron Beacon Journal
It's mid-March and the Great Lakes are virtually ice-free. That's a problem.
Ice cover is extremely low for this time of year. No ice can affect the food web and have other detrimental effects.
- AZCentral | The Arizona Republic
Winter storm coming to northern Arizona, rain expected in metro Phoenix
A winter storm is rolling into northern Arizona this week, bringing rainy conditions into the lower-elevated parts of the state.
- Sacramento Bee
Avalanche engulfs three, killing one skier, in Colorado backcountry, authorities say
One of the survivors hiked out to find help.
- AccuWeather
Storms continue to hound California with flooding rain, mountain snow
The end of winter will not bring relief from a historically stormy cold season in California. AccuWeather meteorologists warn that a potent storm can deliver another round of significant precipitation during the middle of this week. The state's brief lull in the stormy pattern ended Saturday evening when a relatively weak storm arrived. The storm from Sunday with its round of drenching rain and Sierra Nevada heavy snow were not classified as an atmospheric river, like some previous events. Howev
- KCRA - Sacramento Videos
More rain and snow moves into Northern California
KCRA 3 Weather meteorologist Dirk Verdoorn looks at when the next round of wind, rain and snow will arrive in Northern California and how much you can expect.
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California crops lost after floods; how much of the US will feel the shortage?
Too much thing, rain, is sinking farmers’ bottom lines across California’s Central Coast. The area some call "America’s salad bowl" more resembles a soup bowl as round after round of atmospheric river-fueled storms overwhelmed farmland. We all may start to notice a difference in the grocery store as some staples become harder to find.
- Fresno Bee
Flooding reported near historic Black town in Tulare County. Did someone breach riverbank?
Crews were working in the area to stop the flooding.
- Fresno Bee
Ugly deeds, high drama, and politics swirl amid the waters of a re-emerging Tulare Lake
“This is just a baby flood compared to what we’ll see later this spring.”
- LA Times
Thousands of Central Valley residents told to leave homes ahead of another rain onslaught
Thousands of residents have been told to evacuate their homes in California's Central Valley as another storm arrives.
- KTVU
Another Atmospheric River is on the way to the Bay Area
It will be a rainy start to the work week in the Bay Area. Light showers are expected on Monday, a stronger storm will arrive on Tuesday. The rain is expected to subside by Wednesday.
- Sacramento Bee
5.4-magnitude quake in ocean off Alaska felt hundreds of miles away, seismologists say
“You know it’s a big one when it opens your kitchen cabinets.”
- Fresno Bee
Another atmospheric river will arrive in the Fresno area. Will snow levels drop?
See road conditions around Shaver Lake.
- KRIV
Freezing Precipitation without Freezing Temperatures, Your Gulf Coast Weather Authority explains
Both the National Weather Service and viewers reported sleet pellets mixing in with a cold rain on Saturday morning on the south side of town in Houston.
- Associated Press
Louisiana works out deal for family to keep pet nutria
After much public outcry, state officials now say they will let a Louisiana couple keep a 22-pound nutria -- a beady-eyed, orange-toothed, rat-tailed rodent commonly considered a wetlands-damaging pest -- as a pet that frolics with their dog, snuggles in their arms and swims in the family pool. The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, in a statement Friday, said Myra and Denny Lacoste are being allowed to apply for a permit so they can legally keep Neuty the Nutria in their New Orleans home, The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate reported.
- The Hill
Much of California has escaped drought, but what lies ahead?
A recent barrage of winter storms has helped rescue much of California from years of drought, but the state is bracing for possible floods and continued groundwater shortages in the months ahead. At this time last year, the entire Golden State was coping with drought. Now nearly 64 percent of it is drought-free, after a series of “atmospheric rivers”…
- The Telegraph
Rare 6ft shark washes up on Hampshire beach – and is quickly decapitated
It was a golden opportunity to learn more about a rare and secretive shark species that had never been found before in the UK.
- KMGH - Denver Scripps
Voluntary evacuations in place for Larimer County wildfire burning in Poudre Canyon
The Larimer County Sheriff’s Office issued a voluntary evacuation order Sunday for a wildfire burning in Poudre Canyon. The voluntary evacuation area stretches from Riverside Drive to the US Forest Service Visitor Center on Poudre Canyon Road (Highway 14).
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Record-cold temperatures in the East could put recently sprouted vegetation at risk
Colder-than-average temperatures have settled across the eastern half of the U.S., prompting the National Weather Service to issue freeze alerts for nearly 50 million Americans across the South through Monday morning.
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Heavy flooding hits California's San Joaquin Valley
STORY: An atmospheric river dumped more torrential rain on California on Wednesday (March 15), forcing evacuations, power outages and road closures in the state.Authorities said they are monitoring the river level to determine for how long the orders will be kept in place. The higher odds of minor to moderate flooding across most of California from rain and runoff of melting mountain snow this spring is roughly in line with forecasts for much of the U.S., according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).