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Evacuations ordered as wildfire burns in Arizona

April 19, 2022, 8:09am Nation & World

Mandatory evacuations have been ordered for Arizona residents near Mount Union, about 10 miles (16 kilometers) south of Prescott, officials said. Read story

Patrick Timm is a local weather specialist. His column appears Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.

Weather Eye: What a difference we have this April from last year

Patrick Timm is a local weather specialist. His column appears Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.

April 19, 2022, 6:04am Clark County News

Lots of weather action headed our way this week with periods of steady rain and then showers and brief clearing periods. I must add a chance of thunderstorms today, Thursday and Friday. With those scattered storms comes lightning, thunder and small hail. Can’t rule out a funnel cloud here and… Read story

Ted Falgout points out the storm's waterline standing on the houseboat on his property that he rode out Hurricane Ida and has been living in while his home undergoes extensive repairs, in Larose, La., Thursday, April 14, 2022. As climate change increases the threat of hurricanes, cities on the Louisiana coast and Mississippi River are hoping President Biden's $1.2 trillion infrastructure package will provide badly needed funding to fortify locks, levees and other flood protections.

Gulf Coast, Mississippi River cities eager for flood funding

Ted Falgout points out the storm's waterline standing on the houseboat on his property that he rode out Hurricane Ida and has been living in while his home undergoes extensive repairs, in Larose, La., Thursday, April 14, 2022. As climate change increases the threat of hurricanes, cities on the Louisiana coast and Mississippi River are hoping President Biden's $1.2 trillion infrastructure package will provide badly needed funding to fortify locks, levees and other flood protections.

April 18, 2022, 8:07am Nation & World

When Hurricane Ida hit last summer, a storm surge overwhelmed a levee and gushed into Ted Falgout’s coastal Louisiana home, destroying his furniture and the beloved framed photos of his twin sons kissing him on their first day of school, then again when they graduated high school. Read story

Patrick Timm is a local weather specialist. His column appears Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.

Weather Eye: Vancouver’s cool, wet weather likely to linger all week

Patrick Timm is a local weather specialist. His column appears Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.

April 17, 2022, 6:03am Clark County News

The Easter Bunny and Mother Nature may have worked things out for Saturday’s egg hunts, but eventually we saw heavy downpours, thunder, lightning and hail. And yes, wet snowflakes were in the air. Read story

Beverly Wright, a conference co-founder and member of the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council, listens to a presentation at the HBCU Climate Change Conference in New Orleans, Friday, April 15, 2022.

Conference’s focus: Climate action now

Beverly Wright, a conference co-founder and member of the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council, listens to a presentation at the HBCU Climate Change Conference in New Orleans, Friday, April 15, 2022.

April 16, 2022, 4:52pm Nation & World

Both joy and frustration were in the air in New Orleans at the HBCU (historically Black colleges and universities) Climate Change Conference last week as environmental and climate advocates and researchers from around the United States pressed for urgent climate action and pollution cleanup in poor communities and communities of… Read story

A motorist passes by a tree with snow-covered blossoms in southeast Vancouver after a rare April snowstorm blanketed the area Monday morning, April 11, 2022.

April flurries boost Washington snowpack, but cold weather deals blow to some crops east of Cascades

A motorist passes by a tree with snow-covered blossoms in southeast Vancouver after a rare April snowstorm blanketed the area Monday morning, April 11, 2022.

April 16, 2022, 4:49pm Latest News

A series of powerful, cold April storms boosted the region's snowpack, yielding plentiful powder for skiers and helping bolster water supplies for key irrigated agricultural areas east of the Cascades. Read story

A two-story house continues to smolder following the McBride Fire in Ruidoso, New Mexico, on Thursday, April 14, 2022. Authorities say firefighters have kept a wind-driven blaze from pushing further into a mountain community in the southern part of the state.

New Mexico village seeks prayers as deadly wildfire rages

A two-story house continues to smolder following the McBride Fire in Ruidoso, New Mexico, on Thursday, April 14, 2022. Authorities say firefighters have kept a wind-driven blaze from pushing further into a mountain community in the southern part of the state.

April 15, 2022, 12:28pm Nation & World

Firefighters battling a raging New Mexico wildfire that killed two people and destroyed more than 200 homes in a mountainous community braced Friday for gusty winds that threatened to fan the blaze. Read story

FILE - An aerial view of Lake Powell on the Colorado River along the Arizona-Utah border on Sept. 11, 2019. A dam holds back Lake Powell, one of the largest man-made reservoirs in the country. Federal officials sent seven western states a letter this week warning them that they're considering cutting the amount of water that flows through the Colorado River to the Southwest to maintain Lake Powell and prevent it from shrinking to a point at which Glen Canyon Dam could no longer produce hydropower. Consideration of what would be an unprecedented move comes sooner than water officials expected as they reckon with the effects drought and climate change have on their urban and agricultural customers.

In drought-stricken West, officials weigh emergency actions

FILE - An aerial view of Lake Powell on the Colorado River along the Arizona-Utah border on Sept. 11, 2019. A dam holds back Lake Powell, one of the largest man-made reservoirs in the country. Federal officials sent seven western states a letter this week warning them that they're considering cutting the amount of water that flows through the Colorado River to the Southwest to maintain Lake Powell and prevent it from shrinking to a point at which Glen Canyon Dam could no longer produce hydropower. Consideration of what would be an unprecedented move comes sooner than water officials expected as they reckon with the effects drought and climate change have on their urban and agricultural customers.

April 15, 2022, 8:09am Nation & World

Federal officials say it may be necessary to reduce water deliveries to users on the Colorado River to prevent the shutdown of a huge dam that supplies hydropower to some 5 million customers across the U.S. West. Read story

Shipping containers carried away and left in a jumbled pile by floods in Durban, South Africa, Wednesday, April 13, 2022. Flooding in South Africa's Durban area has taken at least 259 lives and is a "catastrophe of enormous proportions," President Cyril Ramaphosa said Wednesday.

Floods in South Africa kill more than 340 with more rain on way

Shipping containers carried away and left in a jumbled pile by floods in Durban, South Africa, Wednesday, April 13, 2022. Flooding in South Africa's Durban area has taken at least 259 lives and is a "catastrophe of enormous proportions," President Cyril Ramaphosa said Wednesday.

April 14, 2022, 6:49pm Nation & World

Heavy rains and flooding have killed at least 341 people in South Africa’s eastern KwaZulu-Natal province, including the city of Durban, and more rainstorms are forecast in the coming days. Read story

Michelle Light salvages belongings from her home on FM 2843 and Cedar Valley Road near Salado, Texas, on Wednesday, April 13, 2022, a day after a tornado destroyed the house.

Woman killed by falling tree as storms hit Midwest, South

Michelle Light salvages belongings from her home on FM 2843 and Cedar Valley Road near Salado, Texas, on Wednesday, April 13, 2022, a day after a tornado destroyed the house.

April 14, 2022, 8:00am Nation & World

A 20-year-old Arkansas woman was killed when a tree fell on her home as severe storms swept through the state and a possible tornado ripped roofs off homes in Alabama, officials said. Read story