EL PASO, Texas — A Winter Weather Advisory issued by the National Weather Service remained in effect for much of the Borderland region after many woke up to their first snow of the season on Tuesday. The advisory was triggered by a major, early season winter storm that arrived in the Borderland Monday night and
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The CDC reports it’s still unknown what effect weather and temperature can have on COVID-19. However, health experts say there is a concern that cold weather can increase the spread of the virus due to human behavior. When temperatures drop, activities and gatherings tend to move indoors. Local infectious disease
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The Ysleta Independent School District has issued a two-hour delayed start for students going to the district’s learning hubs and for employees working at administrative offices. A spokesman for the district said the delay was put in effect due to the inclement weather that hit the Borderland early Tuesday morning.
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EL PASO, Texas — A power outage late Monday night amidst the arrival of a major, early winter storm with the coldest temperatures of the season left around 4,100 El Paso Electric customers without service for about an hour. The outage occurred about 11:20 p.m. and was concentrated in west El Paso. Power was restored
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES, California — A fast-moving wildfire has forced evacuations for 60,000 people in Southern California as powerful winds across the state prompted power to be cut to hundreds of thousands to prevent utility equipment from sparking new blazes. The smoky fire in Orange County broke out just before 7 a.m. Monday and quickly threatened
Continue ReadingWith the strongest Diablo winds and fire weather of the season predicted for Sunday, Pacific Gas & Electric says it will shut off power for roughly 361,000 customers in Northern California. “We are seeing a dangerous combination of factors with this forecast. High winds, extremely low humidity, record dry fuels on the ground and severe
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Despite red flag weather warnings, officials battling the Colorado East Troublesome Fire said conditions are improving to bring the blaze under control. “We’ve had a very good, very good day on the fire, very active suppression day,” Incident Commander Noel Livingston said during a Saturday press conference. Livingston said that it was a good but
Continue Reading Northern California is preparing for weekend weather conditions that threaten to extend an already devastating 2020 wildfire season. The National Weather Service (NWS) issued a Red Flag warning for much of Northern California starting Sunday and into Tuesday for what the agency calls the “strongest event of the year so far.” A red flag warning
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LAFAYETTE, Louisiana — Ripping tarps off damaged roofs and scattering massive piles of storm debris in the wind and water, Hurricane Delta inflicted fresh damage in Louisiana along the same path of destruction Hurricane Laura carved just six weeks earlier. Delta hit as a Category 2 hurricane with top winds of 100 mph (155 kph)
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Fall ushers in cooler temperatures, pumpkin spice everything and beautiful fall foliage. And thousands of Americans seek those vibrant colored leaves by traveling notable distances to view them. But geography doesn’t automatically prescribe vibrant colors — weather often plays a more important role. So where has the weather been conducive for good leaf peeping this
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For current conditions and the latest forecast, visit: kvia.com/weather. It was a hot one – record setting day! pic.twitter.com/Fn8jpDniab— DopplerDave Speelman (@Dopplerdaves) September 25, 2020 Record heat to colder air pic.twitter.com/DbtqM3V9Us— DopplerDave Speelman (@Dopplerdaves) September 25, 2020
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HOUSTON, Texas — Tropical Storm Beta stalled out Tuesday along the Texas coast, flooding streets in Houston and Galveston hours after making landfall amid an unusually busy hurricane season. The storm made landfall late Monday night just north of Port O’Connor, Texas, and has the distinction of being the first time a storm named for
Continue Reading Murder hornets, zombie cicadas, invasive lizards — the list of unexpected creatures popping up across the United States appears to be growing this year. Next on the list? Massive bat colonies, just in time for Halloween. Meteorologists at the National Weather Service (NWS) in Phoenix were looking at their radar screens and spotted a large
Continue ReadingA preliminary 4.5-magnitude earthquake jolted the Southern California area late Friday night. It hit at 11:39 p.m. local time two miles west of El Monte and 10 miles from Los Angeles, the US Geological Survey reported. The earthquake shook buildings and rattled windows, and was felt in San Diego, Valencia and the San Fernando Valley
Continue ReadingA storm front is expected to hit western Oregon Thursday evening, and it’s going to hit exactly the right spots to help firefighters battling blazes there, according to the state forestry department’s fire chief. A lot of the moisture will be falling on the west slopes of the Cascade Mountains, said Doug Grafe, chief of
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Hundreds of people near the Florida-Alabama border were being rescued from floodwaters brought on by Sally on Wednesday and authorities fear many more could be in danger in coming days. “We had 30 inches of rain in Pensacola — 30-plus inches of rain — which is four months of rain in four hours,” Ginny Cranor,
Continue ReadingGULF SHORES, Alabama — Hurricane Sally made landfall near Gulf Shores, Alabama, just before 4 a.m. MT Wednesday as a dangerous Category 2 storm, and is now slamming the Gulf Coast with torrential rain and life-threatening flooding. The latestSally, now weakened to a Category 1, is crawling north-northeast at 5 mph, and is about 15
Continue ReadingUPDATE: Hurricane Sally is slowly closing in on the northern Gulf Coast with powerful winds and weather forecasters are warning of “potentially historic” flooding. Hurricane warnings stretch from Morgan City, Louisiana, to Navarre, Florida. The storm reached Category 2 strength with sustained winds of 100 mph Monday afternoon. Forecasters said winds would likely hit 110
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SACRAMENTO, California — With the smell of California wildfires in the air, President Donald Trump on Monday ignored the scientific consensus that climate change is playing a central role in historic West Coast infernos and renewed his unfounded claim that poor forest management is mostly to blame. The fires are threatening to become another front
Continue Reading A landslide in Nepal on Sunday killed at least 11 people and 20 others are still missing, according to the government. The landslide, caused by heavy rain in the Sindhupalchok District, also injured five people and destroyed 11 homes. Monsoon rains in the region triggered severe flooding and landslides in Nepal, India and Bangladesh in
Continue ReadingThe day after Hurricane Laura rolled through parts of Louisiana and Texas, Rikesh Patel, the owner of several McDonald’s in Louisiana, made a call to corporate. Within 24 hours, a restaurant on wheels arrived in Lake Charles to help feed families in need of a hot meal. Laura, the strongest hurricane to strike the state
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DEMING, New Mexico — Following storms and heavy rain that moved through the region, drivers along a stretch of Interstate 10 in southern New Mexico faced hazardous road conditions due to flooding on Wednesday. The New Mexico Department of Transportation issued an advisory warning of very high water along I-10 at milepost 68, which is
Continue ReadingHelicopter crews have rescued at least 35 more people who’d been trapped by the fast-moving Creek Fire in California’s Sierra National Forest, the state’s National Guard said Tuesday, as numerous wildfires rage in the Golden State and weather conditions threaten more. Three helicopters picked up the new evacuees from the Lake Edison and China Peak
Continue ReadingA small town in eastern Washington is in ruins after a fast-moving wildfire swept through Monday, and teams are still working to account for all residents, county officials said. About 80% of the homes and buildings in Malden, about 35 miles south of Spokane, have been completely destroyed, including the fire station, post office, city
Continue ReadingIf you live in Denver, your last-minute summer plans were just canceled. Residents of the Mile High City will go from experiencing record heat to preparing for a sudden snow storm. The city is expecting a more than 60-degree drop in daily high temperatures, from 101 degrees on Saturday to a predicted 32 degrees on
Continue Reading South Korea is reeling from more bad weather as Typhoon Haishen moves along the Korean Peninsula after battering southwestern Japan, leaving four people missing. Earlier on Monday, Typhoon Haishen had winds of 160 kilometers per hour (99 miles per hour), making it equivalent to a low-end Category 2 hurricane in the Atlantic. It’s the second
Continue ReadingHundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated out of the path of a powerful typhoon that’s expected to make landfall in southwestern Japan on Sunday. Typhoon Haishen has sustained winds of 195 kph (121 mph) and gusts of up to 240 kph (149 mph), the equivalent of a Category 3 hurricane in the Atlantic,
Continue ReadingPUNTA GORDA, Belize — Nana has strengthened into a hurricane as it barrels westward just off the coast of Honduras on a collision course with the Central American nation of Belize, where thousands of people were stocking up on food, water and construction materials. Long lines stretched through supermarkets and hardware store shelves were nearly
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A Blowing Dust Advisory is in effect for El Paso through 7 p.m. Take precautions if traveling throughout the county over the next hour or so. An outflow boundary has moved into the city of El Paso with wind gusts to 35-40 mph. This has produced blowing dust & reduced visibility & will impact travel
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ORANGE, Texas — The destructive storm surge has receded, and the cleanup has begun from Hurricane Laura that roared ashore early Thursday, packing 150 mph winds. The U.S. toll from the Category 4 hurricane rose to 16 deaths Saturday, with more than half of those killed by carbon monoxide poisoning from the unsafe operation of
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