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Warming ocean temperatures and warmer air mean there’s more water vapor in the atmosphere to fuel exteme downpours like those ...

Before 2021, the typically temperate Pacific Northwest and western Canada seemed highly unlikely to get a killer heat wave, ...

Five campers and one counselor from Camp Mystic remain unaccounted for as local officials face mounting questions over who ...

In Central Texas, the search for over 170 missing people persists as rescue teams intensify efforts following devastating ...

Crews are using backhoes and their bare hands to dig through piles of debris that stretch for miles in the search for more ...

Officials in flood-stricken central Texas on Wednesday again deflected mounting questions about whether they could have done ...

The deadly flash floods in central Texas that claimed more than 100 lives over the July Fourth weekend in the United States ...

A Texas firefighter pleaded for an alert amid rising flood waters. It took an hour to go out - Leaked audio provides new ...

Fears grew Wednesday (Jul 9) that the death toll of 110 in the Texas floods could still surge as hopes fade of finding ...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Three people were killed when monsoon rains triggered flash flooding in a New Mexico village, sending ...