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LOS ANGELES — A tornado did, in fact, spin through Los Angeles on Christmas, the National Weather Service confirmed, damaging a home and a commercial strip mall. With a wind speed of up to 80 mph, the brief tornado traveled for about a third of a mile in Boyle Heights just after 10 a.m. Thursday. It was classified as an EF-0 on the Enhanced Fujita scale, the weakest kind of tornado, in which ...

NEW YORK – A mix of snow and ice bore down on the Northeast early on Saturday, disrupting post-holiday weekend airline traffic and prompting officials in New York and New Jersey to issue weather emergency declarations even as the storm ebbed by mid-morning.

For the second time in less than a year, a pair of ski patrollers at Mammoth Mountain have been caught in an avalanche after a major snowstorm. At about 7:30 a.m. Friday, before the resort in eastern California opened, the two were performing "avalanche mitigation work" when a sudden slide occurred on Lincoln Mountain, according to Joani Lynch, vice president for marketing and sales. The pair ...

Skiers, snowboarders and powder hounds may finally get what they have been asking for: more snow.

WRIGHTWOOD, Calif. – Three days of heavy downpours that spawned flash flooding and mudslides across Southern California subsided on Friday, as residents of homes in the hard-hit mountain resort of Wrightwood began digging out mud and assessing damage.

An Arctic blast is forecast to usher in multiple waves of dangerous cold to the Midwest and Northeast next week, forecasters warn.

Six days since a record-breaking windstorm tore through the region, power has been restored in all homes and businesses that were affected, according to a news release from Avista Utilities.

Christmas is the season of many things. Enjoying time with loved ones, gift giving and making gingerbread houses probably all come to mind.

Forget snow boots. Ask Santa for flip-flops instead. Christmas 2025 will be memorable for tens of millions of Americans this year due to the expected record warmth that's forecast for much of the central U.S., where highs could approach 75 degrees as far north as Kansas City, Missouri.

LOS ANGELES — A 400-mile blanket of fog has socked in California’s Central Valley for weeks. Scientists and meteorologists say the conditions for such persistent cloud cover are ripe: an early wet season, cold temperatures and a stable, unmoving high pressure system. But take a stroll through X, Instagram or TikTok, and you’ll see not everyone is so sanguine. People are reporting that the fog ...

New outages were reported due to more high winds early Friday, but local utilities continued making progress in recovering from Wednesday’s windstorm.

Less than 15,000 electricity customers in the Inland Northwest remained without power Thursday afternoon in the aftermath of Wednesday’s windstorm.

Strong winds caused the death of a man near Coeur d’Alene and left thousands without power throughout the Inland Northwest Wednesday morning.

Strong winds will hit the Spokane region early Wednesday morning with predicted speeds that could match the devastating wind storm of 2015, according to the National Weather Service.

Strong, potentially damaging gusts of wind and moderate rainfall are expected in the Spokane region Tuesday and Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service.