LAS CRUCES, New Mexico –The water was released from Caballo Lake Monday into the Rio Grande. It hit Las Cruces Tuesday and was expected to get to El Paso Wednesday night. The speed of the water is the fastest we’ll see all summer. Experts told ABC-7 that the water is running at about 2,000 cubic feet per second.
Continue Reading
RUIDOSO DOWNS, New Mexico — A 47-year-old woman died while trying to drive her car through flood waters in Lincoln County over the holiday weekend, New Mexico State Police confirmed to ABC affiliate KOAT on Tuesday. According to officials, police were notified about a vehicle that got stuck in high water on Alamo Canyon Road
Continue Reading
ELEPHANT BUTTE, New Mexico — Millions of gallons of water were released from the Caballo Lake Reservoir on Monday. Soon, farmers across the Borderland will begin receiving water for irrigation. The Elephant Butte Irrigation District started releasing the water at 6 a.m. at 600 cubic feet per second. By 8:30 a.m., the water was gushing
Continue ReadingThe moon is about to put on a bit of a show. The full moon on May 26 will be the first total lunar eclipse since January 2019, according to EarthSky. It will take the moon just under three hours to cross through the Earth’s shadow, but the actual lunar eclipse will last for about
Continue ReadingVenus, the closest planet to Earth, will appear impressively bright in the night sky this week, after being obscured by the glare of the sun during much of winter and spring. If you’re in the Northern Hemisphere, look west or northwest 30 minutes after sunset, and it should be immediately visible. It’s the second-brightest object
Continue ReadingTwenty one ultra-marathon runners have died after extreme weather conditions hit a 100-kilometer (62-mile) mountain race in northwest China. The high-altitude Huanghe Shilin Mountain Marathon began on Saturday morning in sunny conditions. But by 1 p.m. local time weather conditions had turned, with freezing rain, hail stones and gale winds lashing runners in Gansu County,
Continue Reading
BEIJING (AP) — Twenty-one people running a mountain marathon cross-country race have died in northwestern China after hail, freezing rain and gale winds hit the high-altitude track. The rescue headquarters quoted by the official Xinhua News Agency says the participants suffered from physical discomfort and the sudden drop in temperature. Some went missing around 1
Continue Reading
Click here for the latest Severe Weather Warnings, Watches and AlertsClick here for ABC-7’s LIVE Interactive StormTrack Doppler Radar EL PASO, Texas — The National Weather Service office in El Paso issued a Tornado Watch Saturday for Culberson and Hudspeth Counties in west Texas and Otero County in southern New Mexico. The Tornado Watch had
Continue ReadingGOMA, Congo — Witnesses say a volcano has erupted in eastern Congo near the city of Goma. Residents in the city of nearly 2 million began fleeing in panic as the skies turned a fiery red Saturday evening. The city is also close to the Nyiragongo volcano, whose last eruption in 2002 left hundreds dead
Continue Reading
EL PASO, Texas — Summer is just around the corner and there’s no better way to beat the heat than going for a dip in the water – whether it be Ascarte Lake, floating down the Rio Grande, or just in your backyard pool. Getting back in the water comes with some reminders from the
Continue Reading
ELEPHANT BUTTE, New Mexico — More than two dozen farms in southern New Mexico have applied for a program that will pay them not to plant their fields as water managers look for new ways to stretch resources in the drought-stricken state. It’s the first phase of a multi-year pilot project being managed by the Office of
Continue Reading
NEW DELHI (AP) — The Indian navy is working to rescue crew members from a sunken barge and a second cargo vessel that was adrift off the coast of Mumbai after a deadly cyclone struck the western coast. The navy said it had rescued 177 people of the total 400 on the two barges in the
Continue Reading
EL PASO, Texas — A fast-moving brush fire in El Paso’s Upper Valley on Saturday afternoon generated lots of visible smoke and destroyed a shed, but firefighters said fortunately there were no injuries reported. The fire broke out in dry grass in the 4300 block of Emory Road near Doniphan Drive about 2:20 p.m. It
Continue Reading
EL PASO, Texas — A northeast El Paso power outage left thousands without electrical service for a portion of the hot Saturday evening. The El Paso Electric Company outage map showed over 3,500 customers were impacted by the outage, which began around 5 p.m.; as of 7 p.m. the map reflected power had been restored
Continue Reading
EL PASO, Texas — We certainly are having a windy spring. We’ve racked up 39 windy days so far this season and I’m sure most of us are ready for calmer days. But from all the negatives we can think of related to the wind, there are positives. Let’s explain one of those. Most of
Continue Reading
UPDATE # 14: The origin of the Three Rivers Fire remains unknown and under investigation but fire crews are at the halfway mark exterminating the fire. National Forest Service officials said Tuesday that the wildfire is 50 % contained as crews extend fire control lines along the southern part of the blaze in steep terrain
Continue ReadingA brush fire that broke out Friday east of Phoenix, Arizona, has grown to 2,650 acres, according to the state Department of Forestry and Fire Management. The Copper Canyon Fire was about 35% contained as of Sunday night, the department said on Twitter. Fire crews are focused on monitoring the blaze’s southern and western edges,
Continue Reading
EL PASO, Texas — Two entities across different states will distribute water from the Rio Grande to farmers in the region.New Mexico will distribute far less than Texas and it all has to do because of severe drought conditions plaguing the area. Gary Esslinger, the general manager for the Elephant Butte Irrigation District which oversees
Continue Reading
EL PASO, Texas — Did you catch those weird lights in the sky Wednesday night? You’re not alone. Viewers in Texas and New Mexico called KVIA along with our ABC sister-stations KOAT in Albuquerque and WFAA in Dallas Wednesday night with the same question: What are those lights in the sky? The five lights were
Continue Reading
EL PASO, Texas — El Paso County Commissioners Court on Monday discussed a possible ban on fireworks usage given the current drought the Borderland is experiencing. The Keetch-Byram Drought Index rates the county’s drought condition between 700 and 800 on its scale, with 800 being the most severe rating an area can have. Fernando Viramontes,
Continue Reading
El Paso, Texas — Drought conditions across the Borderland have gone from bad to worse, according to the latest U.S. Drought Monitor report. Almost 80% of New Mexico is in an extreme drought and every area across El Paso County is facing some form of a drought. Current Drought Pictured on Left. 2020 Drought Conditions
Continue Reading
EL PASO, Texas — Several thousand were without electricity for about 90 minutes Thursday afternoon during a power outage on El Paso’s west side blamed on weather conditions as rain fell across the city. An El Paso Electric spokesman said power had been fully restored to all around 2:50 p.m.; roughly 3,250 customers had been
Continue ReadingApril’s full moon is the “pink” moon, and it’s a supermoon, too. Catch it in the night sky this Monday. This moon will be at its fullest on Monday at 11:32 p.m. ET (9:32 p.m. MT), according to NASA. Supermoons appear bigger and brighter in the sky because they are slightly closer to Earth. Interpretations
Continue Reading
TORRANCE COUNTY, New Mexico — Officials in central New Mexico’s Torrance County lifted evacuation orders Sunday for residents near the Paradise Loop Fire. The wildfire was sparked Saturday by burning debris on private land, officials said, and has burned at least 52 acres as of Sunday afternoon, including three buildings. It’s now 65% contained, according
Continue Reading
HOUSTON, Texas — Multiple earthquakes have been reported across Texas in recent days, including a magnitude 4.3 quake in the northern part of the state, ABC affiliate KTRK reports. The latest quake was reported along the Louisiana border in northeast Texas around 12:13 a.m. Thursday. The U.S. Geological Survey said a 2.5 magnitude earthquake struck
Continue ReadingTracy thought she’d built her forever home. She and her 5-year-old granddaughter live in an energy-efficient house in Northern California that Tracy designed — by a pond that’s frequented by otters, ducks and herons (oh my!). Then came the fires, the smoke, the evacuations, the days when the sky turned red and they were unable
Continue Reading
KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent — Conditions worsened on Sunday at a volcano on the eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent as loud rumbling, lightning and heavy ashfall were observed and residents reported power cuts. The eruption Friday of La Soufrière forced many residents to evacuate their homes, though some remained in place. The rumbling was heard
Continue ReadingAt least two people in Louisiana are dead after extreme overnight weather, authorities say, as severe weather along the northern Gulf Coast impacts almost 65 million people. Emergency officials in St. Landry Parish report one death and seven injuries after a possible tornado hit early Saturday, Jessie Bellard, parish president, said in a statement. On Friday
Continue ReadingA Louisiana man died Friday night after strong winds knocked a tree into his mobile home, authorities say, as severe weather along the northern Gulf Coast puts nearly 65 million people at risk. A level 3 out of 5 severe weather threat has been issued for parts of the Gulf Coast on Saturday, affecting nearly 6 million people in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama,
Continue Reading
The National Weather Service says, “When thunder roars, go indoors” for a reason. Video posted on the US National Weather Service Green Bay Wisconsin Facebook page shows lightning strike a pine tree Thursday. You can see the tree light up down the middle, shatter, and plummet to the ground in pieces. The tree was outside
Continue Reading