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By Allison Chinchar and Haley Brink, CNN Significant widespread flooding is possible across much of California on Monday as more heavy rain hits the state, forecasters say. “The longevity and intensity of rain, combined with the cumulative effect of successive heavy rain events dating back to the end of December, will lead to widespread and

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted in January 2022, it sent shockwaves around the world. Not only did it trigger widespread tsunami waves, but it also belched an enormous amount of climate-warming water vapor into the Earth’s stratosphere. Now researchers in a new report have unveiled something else: the eruption

By Allison Chinchar, CNN Meteorologist California has been battered by heavy snow, damaging winds and flooding this week — and now another round of storms is set to hit the West Coast this weekend. “Relentless parade of cyclones from the Pacific will bring more flooding rains and mountain snows to the West Coast with main

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN More storms are set to slam Northern California and other parts of the West Coast this weekend, threatening heavy rain late Friday to places already struggling with flooding from a separate system that killed at least two people. After much of California was lashed with heavy rain and damaging winds Wednesday

By Amir Vera, Taylor Ward, Rob Shackelford and Jennifer Gray, CNN Wind gusts in central California have reached hurricane-force as the heaviest rain and strongest winds have begun moving onshore in the Bay Area, all part of another powerful storm — known as a bomb cyclone — that is hitting the state’s coast. Peak wind

By Nouran Salahieh, Rob Shackelford, Jennifer Gray and Taylor Ward, CNN Two major storm systems are threatening the US this week. A massive, multi-hazard storm was barreling east across the country Tuesday, impacting much of the central and eastern US and threatening the South with strong tornadoes and flooding and parts of the Plains and

By Holly Yan, Monica Garrett, Derek Van Dam, Joe Sutton and Jamiel Lynch, CNN A potent winter storm that turned deadly in California is now threatening powerful tornadoes in the South and heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain in the Midwest. About seven million people are under flood alerts across the Mississippi River Valley as

By Zoe Sottile, CNN The year 2022 is finally coming to a close — but not before some rainy weather arrives on both the West and East coasts. Here’s what you can expect from the weather on the last day of 2022 and the first day of 2023. The East Coast will have a rainy

By Jay Croft, Monica Garrett and Allison Chinchar, CNN Another significant storm system will plow into the West Coast on Friday, bringing heavy rain, mountain snow and strong winds — and the last day of the year will be a wet one in the Northeast and the Southwest. The system that left thousands without power

By Elizabeth Wolfe and Kristina Sgueglia, CNN After tremendous efforts to recover from a deadly winter storm, officials in Buffalo, New York, are preparing for the threat of minor flooding in the days to come as warming temperatures and rain melt the heavy snowpack. The historic weekend blizzard dumped up to 50 inches of snow

By Rob Shackelford, Elizabeth Wolfe and Monica Garrett, CNN An eastbound stretch of Interstate-70 in Colorado has reopened, the state Transportation Department said, after a nine-hour closure left drivers stranded amid strong bouts of heavy mountain snow, widespread rain and gusty winds that continue to sweep the West and push into the Central US. Much

By Michelle Krupa, Nouran Salahieh and Alaa Elassar, CNN As authorities in Buffalo, New York, continue following up on some of the hundreds of calls for help made during and since the historic weekend blizzard — a “grueling, gruesome task” that’s revealed people dead in cars and snowbanks — officials are facing tough questions about