Mother’s Day weekend got off to an unseasonably snowy start in the Northeast on Saturday thanks to the polar vortex bringing cold air down from the north.
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Several people were hurt when a possible tornado tore a roof off an Arkansas apartment building, part of a line of storms dumping more rain Thursday on already drenched areas.
April showers arrived in California as a series of low-pressure systems scoots through the state, but the rain totals won’t do much to ease five years of drought, forecasters said.
At least one person died during Saturday’s storm that brought a tornado to Cisco, Texas, fire Chief Walter Fairbanks tells CNN. One person was critically injured.
A record-setting run of snowstorms that has pounded the U.S. Northeast over the past two weeks has taken a heavy toll on Massachusetts, taxing supplies of salt to keep roads clear and leaving authorities running out of places to pile the snow.
Phoenix recorded record rainfall for a single day on Monday, turning freeways into small lakes and sending rescuers scrambling to get drivers out of inundated cars.