Highway 168 at bottom of 4-lane remains closed due to heavy snow
Crews first prioritized rescuing vehicles stuck on the highway and now are continuing to clear roads.
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Sacramento BeeAvalanche engulfs three, killing one skier, in Colorado backcountry, authorities say
One of the survivors hiked out to find help.
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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.
- Fox Weather
Multiday 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.
- 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.”
- 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.”
- Bellingham Herald mcclatchy articles
Snowpack and rainfall are below normal for Whatcom County. Is drought likely?
As La Niña ends, climatologists look toward fall and the possibility of an El Niño weather cycle.
- 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.
- WHIO
NTSB: 3 alerts issued before plane heading to Columbus crashed, killing 5 on board
The National Transportation Safety Board has released its initial findings after a plane heading to Columbus crashed last month, killing five people on board.
- 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.
- 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.
- Fox Weather
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.
- 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
- BBC
Climate change: Couple set for Pole-to-Pole electric car challenge
The husband and wife will journey 17,000 miles from the Arctic to Antarctica, aided by renewables.
- AFP
Unwanted visitor ruins spring break in Florida - toxic algae
With its brilliant sun, white sand and turquoise water, Lido Key Beach would make for a perfect postcard of Florida beaches if it weren't for the dozens of dead fish lying on the shore, killed by a toxic algae bloom known as red tide.Facing the Lido Beach Resort, Napier seems resigned to living with the toxic bloom.
- AFP
Sweden's teens drive Porsches and BMWs, no licence needed
Too young for a driver's licence at 15, Evelina Christiansen is already cruising in a sleek BMW in Sweden, where teens can drive any car modified to roll no faster than a golf cart. While teenagers elsewhere have to make do with a moped or scooter until they get a driver's licence, young Swedes can use almost any vehicle that has its top speed capped.
- 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.
- The Tuscaloosa News
Does mild February mean snake season has arrived early? | ECOVIEWS
Spring heralds the emergence of many U.S. reptiles from winter dormancy. A warm February in the Southeast has led to earlier questions about snakes.
- 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).