At a Glance Monsoon rains have dropped nearly 40 inches of rain on Townsville in the past seven days.Floodgates on the stressed Ross River Dam are fully open, forcing evacuations in 20 suburbs.Hundreds of people have already had to be rescued from their homes.Two police officers have to cling to trees after their car was washed away.Crocodiles are being spotted in residential areas. Residents of monsoon-soaked Townsville awaited more rain Monday night, adding to the nearly 50 inches that has...

A new weather.com podcast has premiered: Warming Signs with Kait Parker. The first episode is your complete guide to navigating the misinformation surrounding climate change and a warming world. Join Parker and Dr. Michael Mann, one of the world’s leading experts on the subject, as they answer questions like: What is climate change? Is it climate change or global warming? And is it really our fault? To listen to the first episode of Warming Signs, . (MORE: Listen to The...

At a Glance Heavy snow and falling trees close all roads in Yosemite.More than 58,000 customers are without power in California. Rockslides have shut down highways in Colorado, California and Arizona.A storm-related power outage led to 19,400 gallons of wastewater spilling into Puget Sound. This article is no longer being updated. For the latest impacts, click here. Winter Storm Lucian continued to create hazardous driving conditions Tuesday from the Pacific Coast into the Midwest and it led to the closing...

Climate change will make the oceans' blues bluer and their greens greener, a new study says. An ocean’s color depends on how sunlight is reflected by whatever is in the water. Microorganisms called phytoplankton contain chlorophyll, a pigment that absorbs more of the blue part of the light spectrum and less of the green. The green light is reflected. So water with more phytoplankton has a greenish hue. Areas without the organisms, like the middle of the ocean, look blue....

A satellite photo, taken in June 2018, shows an overview of the dam in Brumadinho, Brazil, before it collapsed in January 2019. (Satellite image ©2019 DigitalGlobe, a Maxar company) Satellite images from DigitalGlobe show the before and after views of last month's disastrous dam collapse near Brumadinho, Brazil. The dam collapse and ensuing mudslide on January 25 , The Guardian reported. The dam was located at Vale's iron ore mine in Minas Gerais state, and its as deep as 16...

About 50 people had to be evacuated early Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019, after an ice jam caused the Grand River to spill over its banks in Portland, Michigan. (Matthew Dae Smith/Lansing State Journal via AP) At a Glance About 50 people had to evacuate in Portland, Michigan, because of flooding.There has also been flooding along the Loupe and Platte rivers in Nebraska.Students in a New York town got out of school early when an ice jam threatened to cause flooding....

At a Glance Minnesota's Gov. Tim Walz mobilized the National Guard to rescue stranded drivers More than 172,000 customers are without power Friday morning in Michigan.Officials in parts of Minnesota and the Dakotas urged everyone to stay off the roads.Four deaths were blamed on the winter storm as it pushed east. After days of travel headaches caused by Winter Storm Lucian, officials began to reopen interstates on Friday. No Travel advisories remained in effect early Friday in the Upper Midwest...

At a Glance Heavy downpours have washed tons of trash into Southern California rivers.The rivers dumped the trash onto beaches.Harmful bacteria also flow into the water, and recent levels have been stunningly high. Recent rainstorms in Southern California have dumped tons of garbage and other debris on the area's beaches. Greg Fellers, a board member of the environmental group , told the Los Angeles Times the is the worst he has in 10 years of cleaning up beaches. “It was...

At a Glance Researchers used fish carcasses and cameras to identify scavengers near the site of the 1986 nuclear accident.They identified 10 mammal species and five bird species.The study also shows how scavenging activity can connect food webs, the scientists said. The area around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, site of a catastrophic nuclear accident in April 1986, may be nearly devoid of human life, but wildlife is thriving there. A University of Georgia study using fish carcasses and motion-activated...

At a Glance Major flash flooding occurred in Middle Tennessee Wednesday night.One person died in Middle Tennessee after being swept away by floodwaters.An Ohio man died after his car was submerged in a river. At least six tornadoes were spawned as the storms pushed east. Heavy rain, thunderstorms and deadly flooding on the warm side of Winter Storm Lucian were causing trouble from Arkansas and southern Missouri and southern Illinois into Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee and Kentucky. In addition to the...

This Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019 photo from video by Joel Keeler shows vehicles buried in the parking lot of the snowed-in Montecito Sequoia Lodge in Kings Canyon National Park in California's Sierra Nevada. More than 120 visitors and staff who became snowbound in the Sierra Nevada resort for five days have been freed. (Joel Keeler via AP) At a Glance Crews had to travel by snowmobile to get to the lodge in the mountains east of Fresno on Wednesday morning....

Hail covers the second green of the Pebble Beach Golf Links during the final round of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am golf tournament on Sunday, February 10, 2019, in Pebble Beach, California. Play was suspended after the hailstorm. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg) At a Glance Hail quickly covered the greens at the Pebble Beach course.The final round was delayed for several hours.The tournament will likely be completed on Monday. Golfers, caddies and spectators raced for cover Sunday when hail began to...