Napa Valley, California Napa Valley is often hailed as the crown jewel of American wine country. Nestled in California's ...

The following is an excerpt from a recent article on the Weather West Blog.  California's extraordinary precipitation dipole has persisted into mid-Feb with only slight attenuation Well, it has ...

As Southern California recovers from last month’s devastating wildfires, heavy rains Thursday resulted in pockets of flooding ...

The areas most at risk are on or near hillsides that have burned in recent years, with little or no vegetation left to hold soil in place.

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Mudslides are dangerous torrents that are usually referred to by geologists and first responders as debris flows.

Southern California is getting drenched with the strongest storm of the year to date. Rainfall totals through Friday are ...

It seems like merely a fact of life on the West Coast that summers are dry. But compared to most of the rest of the country ...