Thursday Evening Weather Update
Increasing clouds tonight with rain likely on Friday. Temps much milder thru the night and into Friday. Once the rain ends, colder and breezy for the Weekend. Here is the breakdown.
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“This is just a baby flood compared to what we’ll see later this spring.”
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Paper plates and short showers: life with no water in Arizona
With its cactus-filled garden and breathtaking views of the rocky peaks of the Arizona desert, Wendy and Vance Walker's home in the Rio Verde Foothills seemed to be a little slice of paradise. City managers in Scottsdale, faced with meeting their own targets, decided Rio Verde Foothills -- which they view as profligate development -- would no longer be able to buy their water.
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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.
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Rare 6ft shark washes up on Hampshire beach – and is quickly decapitated
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Does mild February mean snake season has arrived early? | ECOVIEWS
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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.
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Avalanche engulfs three, killing one skier, in Colorado backcountry, authorities say
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Giant gator visits posh Florida town in another ‘Jurassic’ moment
Residents in an upscale Florida community paused activities Thursday to marvel at the sight of a giant alligator crossing the road.
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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.
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5.4-magnitude quake in ocean off Alaska felt hundreds of miles away, seismologists say
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The Biden administration is offering to pay Colorado River farmers to let fields go dry during a devastating drought. They're worried it's just the first step in losing their way of life.
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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.
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California crops lost after floods; how much of the US will feel the shortage?
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Portland firefighters rescue 14-year-old dog that fell 23 feet down open manhole
Tess, 14-year-old Labrador retriever, was safely rescued in Portland, Oregon, on Friday after fire officials said she fell about 23 feet down an open manhole.
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Yosemite National Park Has Partially Reopened — What to Know Before Visiting
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