Another ‘atmospheric river’ storm poses another flood threat in California

Emergency crews renewed the threat of power outages and flooding as California braced for another round of high winds and torrential rain, starting Wednesday, that lashed parts of the state over New Year’s weekend. The latest “atmospheric river” – an airborne current of dense moisture flowing in from the ocean – was expected to drench […]

70 percent of US under hurricane warnings as deep freeze hits

More than 3,520 US flights were already canceled Friday and another 1,900 were delayed, according to the tracking website Flight Aware, many at international hubs in New York, Seattle and Chicago’s O’Hare. US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg warned that holiday travel was being severely affected. “To say we’ve had the opposite of cooperative weather would […]