'We all ran:' Texas town reeling after possible tornado
Residents of Deer Park faced life-threatening severe weather as a likely tornado bore down on the community on Jan. 24.
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- Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Cause of rock slide solved when driver checks Google Maps, New Mexico officials say
“How did it not crush someone?”
- Kansas City Star
Tenacious wolf plunges through ice into Michigan lake. See how it fought to survive
“Wild animals are amazing and their various survival tactics are incredible,” one viewer wrote.
- INSIDER
This Montana man spends his days shooting at birds that land on a toxic lake to save them from burning inside out
The lake has become so acidic that if a bird lands there for more than a few hours it could be cooked from the inside out.
- Redding Record Searchlight
Drenched by higher-than-normal rain, Lake Shasta water level rises 60 feet during January
Higher-than-normal rainfall during the past month has dramatically changed Lake Shasta, with the water level of California’s largest reservoir rising 60 feet since the end of December.
- Miami Herald
Miami temperatures could break records. How extreme will it get? What the forecast says
South Florida will see two big changes to the weather this week.
- Fox News
Ice storm in South could cause power outages, travel issues for millions of Americans
The South is facing the risk of a significant ice storm as a powerful arctic cold front is bringing freezing wind chills to most of the U.S.
- Fox News
Video shows Wisconsin police officer getting snow dumped on him after closing door
The Viroqua Police Department outside of Madison, Wisconsin, has released a video of one of its officers getting slammed with snow after closing a door.
- Fox Weather
Great Salt Lake water levels rising after atmospheric rivers
Candice Hasenyager, Director of Utah Department of Natural Resources, discusses the impact the atmospheric rivers had on the Great Salt Lake's water levels.
- Sacramento Bee
Diver swept away from group by rip current still missing, California rescuers say
The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended its search for the 27-year-old.
- Sacramento Bee
Crews put out ‘spontaneous’ Tesla battery fire on California freeway with 6,000 gallons of water
Some 6,000 gallons of water was used to put out the flames.
- The Guardian
US renewable energy farms outstrip 99% of coal plants economically – study
It is cheaper to build solar panels or cluster of wind turbines and connect them to the grid than to keep operating coal plants
- LA Times
Cold weather arrives in Southern California, bringing snow in the mountains
Cold weather moves into Southern California, bringing snow in the mountains at low elevations and warnings of slippery roads.
- Sacramento Bee
4.1-magnitude quake felt by hundreds shakes Montana, seismologists say
“Thought someone was beating on the wall with a 2x4 or something.”
- INSIDER
A Chinese food blogger was fined $18,500 after cooking and eating a great white shark
The influencer, identified by officials as Jin, and known as Tizi in her videos, shared videos of her buying, slice, and eating the protected animal.
- CBS-Chicago
Chicago Weather Alert: Temperatures in the teens, Winter Weather Advisory south of Chicago
CBS 2 meteorologist Ed Curran has the extended forecast.
- CBS-Dallas
First Alert Weather Day: North Texas under threat of freezing rain, sleet
First Alert Weather Days have been called Monday through Wednesday due to the threat of freezing rain and sleet.
- Fox Weather
Sunday marks anniversary for the only time measurable snow fell in world's hottest place
Sunday marks the 111th anniversary of the greatest snow in all time at Death Valley.
- LA Times
Why desert golf courses and artificial lakes remain untouched by the Colorado River crisis
In the Coachella Valley, water continues flowing to lakes and golf courses, even as the Colorado River reaches new lows. Critics say it's time to limit heavy water use.
- Gizmodo
Nobody Is Happy With the Federal Grazing Program
At the first National Forest site we visited in California’s remote Modoc Plateau, nearly every plant had been chewed on by cattle. The botanists, there to track down and collect seeds from rare plants, pointed out the soil erosion from stomping hooves. The cow pies were everywhere, unavoidable on the steep roadside slope, and they crunched or squished under our boots. The seeds we had come to collect, from a delphinium only known to exist in a handful of places in the state (though more common