Powerful storm causes mudslides in California, threatens outbreak of tornadoes and wildfires across US this week

Parts of Los Angeles, Ventura and Orange counties saw flash flood warnings early Thursday, but Southern California’s heaviest rain let up by the afternoon – though the threat of mudslides will persist ... Read More

Is California's Wildfire Risk Over? What Forecast Shows

Multiple wildfires ... weather pattern change looking further out. According to the NWS Climate Prediction Center's eight- to 14-day precipitation outlook, nearly all of California, including much ... Read More

Will California have hot, dry weather or heavy rain in spring 2025? Here’s the latest forecast

Spring in Central California is expected to be cool and wet with storms arriving in March and early April, according to David Spector, meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Hanford. That’s ... Read More

Sprawling System Brings Warnings for Extreme Weather to Much of the U.S.

An “unusually strong” storm system for March may bring a range of hazards that includes wildfires ... Ghaffar is a reporter on The Times’s weather team. Judson Jones is a reporter and ... Read More

Extreme weather in U.S. fans fires, flips trucks. Forecasters fear tornado outbreak

A sprawling storm system crossing the U.S. overturns semitrucks on highways and fans wildfires in Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Kansas. Tornadoes might hit the South. Read More

Extreme Weather Toolkit: Wildfire

especially in the western U.S. Human-caused climate change accounts for at least two-thirds of the rapid increase in fire weather in the western U.S. in recent decades. And the latest IPCC ... Read More