Hourly Weather - Portage la Prairie, Canada

(Getty) The Southern Sierra’s record snowpack may have contributed to a deadly accident on 14,505-foot Mount Whitney this month. On Tuesday, October 17, Tom Gerbier, a 38-year-old Air France pilot from a suburb of Paris, died after falling on 14,505-foot Mount Whitney. Gerbier had a permit to climb via the Mountaineers Route, a highly exposed climb covered in loose rocks, steep enough that a slip or trip would likely result in death. When Gerbier did not show up for his...