Next Up Ice Threat Remains As Winter Storm Moves Out Why Helene’s Flooding In NC Was So Bad October 9, 2024 Helene was expected to bring catastrophic damage to coastal areas, but the storm also devastated mountainous areas well inland. Here’s how that happened. ...
(AP) - As remnants of Subtropical Storm Alberto spread into the Great Lakes region, people were keeping a weary watch on dams and hillsides Thursday as rains from the storms have triggered floods and mudslides in the Appalachians of the Southeast. In the North Carolina mountains, one of ...
forecasters said it could result in "life-threatening, catastrophic flooding rainfall" across the mountains of western North Carolina, western Virginia and eastern West Virginia.
Storms in the Pacific Northwest and Rocky Mountains had already dumped 29 inches (74 centimeters) at Stevens Pass in Washington and 30 inches (76 centimeters) outside Santa Fe, New Mexico, according to the National Weather Service. Authorities issued warnings for very dangerous avalanche ...
Roads were closed across the state, including many along the spine of the Green Mountains. Some people canoed their way to the Cavendish Baptist Church in Vermont, which had turned into a shelter. About 30 people waited it out, some of them making cookies for firefighters who were working ...
A rare "high risk" for flash flooding has been issued from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Roanoke, Virginia, where up to 6 inches of rain is possible on Thursday. ABC News Thursday night, the rain and flash flooding will spread into the Blue Ridge Mountains west of Washington, D.C. By ...
with rainfall from the surrounding Blue Ridge mountains flowing downhill into heavily populated areas, like the city of Asheville, where FEMA and the National Guard continue to truck and airlift food and water to residents cut off from ...
Associated Press journalists Carolyn Thompson in Buffalo, New York; Lisa Rathke in Barre, Vermont; Jeffrey Collins in Columbia, South Carolina; Susan Haigh in Norwich, Connecticut; Holly Ramer in Concord,New Hampshire; and Ron Todt in Philadelphia contributed ...
The mountains will help provide lift for the moisture, squeezing out even more rain and triggering flash flooding potential. "(Helene will) bring in all of that moisture, not just from the Gulf (of Mexico). Some is going to be from the western Atlantic," said FOX Weather Meteorologis...
Very weird weather is happening out west too. In fact, several feet of snow just fellin the mountains of California… Parts of California still resemble a scene out of winter, with a series of storms bringing several feet of snow to mountain areas, ahead of a “significant” severe weather...