Hottest weather so far

The hottest weather of the year so far will build into the area this weekend.

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  • It's July, and something very abnormal is happening in Redding over this holiday weekend

    And if Mother Nature again smiles favorably upon us, it will happen again Monday.

  • Floodwaters race through Montana city and leave damage behind

    Dramatic footage from Helena, Montana, showed roaring floodwaters overwhelming streets in the city on July 3. A storm began to sweep through Helena on Sunday evening, bringing fierce wind gusts and significant flooding with it. Video acquired by Storyful and shot by passerby Andy Shirtliff showed water up to the wheel well of vehicles as they drove through downtown Helena. The water made its way into some buildings downtown, including The Lewis and Clark Library. Maintenance teams worked quickly

  • Heat dome to sizzle interior West, suppress monsoon storms

    AccuWeather meteorologists expect temperatures to skyrocket across the Intermountain West heading into this weekend, with a few locales potentially reaching their hottest levels of the year thus far. A northward shift in the jet stream will allow a 'heat dome' to build across much of the West and High Plains during the latter part of the week. Underneath these heat domes, the air sinks, causing temperatures to climb and precipitation and cloud cover to generally be limited. Following a generally

  • Minnesota weather: Storms move through early Monday morning

    A line of storms is expected to sweep through Minnesota early Monday morning.

  • Lightning strike leaves man unresponsive near North Carolina coast, cops say

    He was taken to a hospital, officials said.

  • Residents, businesses prepare for more flash flooding

    Residents in northern New Mexico prepared for another day of flash flooding. On Saturday, those in Pendaries were seen placing sandbags and building trenches along roads. The area is located near burn scars from the Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak fire. "We can have some flooding, but not like this. Not running down roads that we've never seen it run down before, moving buildings and cars," Aaron Atencio, manager at Pendaries RV Park, said.

  • Hurricane Bonnie steams westward off Mexico's Pacific coast

    Hurricane Bonnie strengthened while moving roughly parallel to Mexico’s Pacific coast Monday, after crossing over Central America from the Caribbean and dropping heavy rain and contributing to two deaths. Bonnie had maximum sustained winds of 105 mph (165 kph) late Monday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. The storm left heavy flooding after crossing sodden Nicaragua over the weekend after making landfall as a tropical storm on the country's Caribbean coast late Friday.

  • Australia floods worsen as thousands more flee Sydney homes

    SYDNEY (Reuters) -Torrential rains kept battering Australia's east coast on Tuesday, intensifying the flood crisis in Sydney as thousands more residents were ordered to leave their homes after rivers swiftly rose past danger levels. About 50,000 residents in New South Wales, most in Sydney's western suburbs, have been told to either evacuate or warned they might receive evacuation orders, up from Monday's 30,000, authorities said. "This event is far from over," New South Wales Premier Dominic Perrottet told reporters.

  • For the 21st time this week, earthquakes hit the Columbia area

    Aftershocks continue rumbling through the Midlands following a series of relatively powerful earthquakes.

  • 'Miserable': A sweltering, sticky and stormy week ahead. Here's what to know.

    The heat index will climb into the 100s during the week, then create scattered storms, according to NWS predictions.

  • 3 feet of rain sets up 4th round of flood misery for Sydney

    More than 30,000 residents of Sydney and its surrounds were told to evacuate or prepare to abandon their homes Monday as Australia’s largest city faces its fourth, and possibly worst, round of flooding in less than a year and a half. Days of torrential rain caused dams to overflow and waterways to break their banks, bringing a new flood emergency to parts of the city of 5 million people. “The latest information we have is that there’s a very good chance that the flooding will be worse than any of the other three floods that those areas had in the last 18 months,” Emergency Management Minister Murray Watt said.

  • Rain showers, storms in Fourth of July forecast for southern and central Wisconsin

    Rain showers and storms could linger through the week, according to the National Weather Service.

  • Why Australia is battling floods again

    Torrential rain is lashing Australia's southeast coast, forcing thousands of people from their homes because of the danger of floods and landslides in a region battered by major flooding four times in the past 18 months. Some areas in New South Wales state have received a month's rain in the past two days, swelling rivers and forcing Sydney's main dam, the Warragamba Dam, to spill on the weekend. Flooding in March and April in New South Wales and southeast Queensland state resulted in A$4.8 billion ($3.3 billion) in insured damage, the Insurance Council of Australia estimated.

  • At least 14 hikers still missing as death toll rises after glacier collapse in Italy

    At least seven hikers were killed in the devastating avalanche, while eight people suffered injuries and 14 others remained missing Monday.

  • Wind-whipped 25-acre fire destroys two homes in Fresno County. What started it?

    Firefighters were working late to finish containment.

  • China sees record rains, heat as weather turns volatile

    From the snowcapped peaks of Tibet to the tropical island of Hainan, China is sweltering under the worst heatwave in decades while rainfall hit records in June. Extreme heat is also battering Japan, and volatile weather is causing trouble for other parts of the world in what scientists say has all the hallmarks of climate change, with even more warming expected this century. The northeastern provinces of Shandong, Jilin and Liaoning saw precipitation rise to the highest levels ever recorded in June, while the national average 112.1 millimeters (4.4 inches) was 9.1 % high than the same month last year, the China Meteorological Administration said in a report Tuesday.

  • Vegetation fire burns 150 acres of vegetation near Camp Roberts

    Parts of Camp Roberts are still without power.

  • Severe storms expected in Milwaukee and southeastern Wisconsin, including hail and wind up to 60 mph

    The National Weather Service issued a severe thunderstorm watch for southeastern Wisconsin until 3 a.m.

  • Heavy rainfall triggers severe flooding in China

    STORY: The footage showed an excavator working among floodwater in Fuchuan, Guangxi province on Sunday (July 3).In Zhanjiang, Guangdong province, rescuers were seen transporting residents over inundated roads.Heavy rain is expected to hit central and southern China over the next few days as the expansive rain belts of a weakening typhoon sweep inland from the country's southern coastline.

  • North Texas saw one of hottest Junes on record; triple-digit highs forecast this week

    DFW temperatures were 4.2 degrees above average for the month, with nine 100-degree days.