“We’re seeing the fingerprints of climate change all over our nation,” NOAA applied climatologist Adam Smith said Monday. “I would not expect things to slow down anytime soon.”
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“It’s heaven sent for a skier because I can ski until Memorial Day,” said Dan Lavely, 66, a Reno resident who’s been skiing for about 40 years.
A rare storm packing 100 mph winds and with power similar to an inland hurricane swept across the Midwest, blowing over trees, flipping vehicles, causing widespread property damage and leaving hundreds of thousands without power as it moved through Chicago and into Indiana and Michigan.
National Guard troops and rescue crews in high-water vehicles took up positions around the state.
The Northeast is bracing for its third nor’easter in less than two weeks.
California Gov. Jerry Brown has asked President Trump to declare a major disaster in the state because of damage from a month of storms as more rain hit the south.
A surging Red River that flooded northwest Louisiana this week, damaging hundreds of structures and displacing scores of people, slowly began to recede on Wednesday but was still expected to be above flood stage for several more days.
Emergency crews were cleaning up on Monday from tornadoes that killed at least four people and injured 50 others in Texas and Arkansas that were part of a twister series to hit central states overnight, flattening buildings and snapping power lines.
Strong gales and sheets of rain that knocked out electricity, flooded freeways and toppled trees in Northern California churned Thursday to a slide-prone Southern California bracing for its own beating.
