Weather extremes wither LA, drown Texas
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Barring a surprise arrival of the kind of gully washers Texas is getting these days, Los Angeles' driest year in 130 years of record-keeping will go into the books this weekend.
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Flood-weary residents of Texas and Oklahoma had no reprieve Friday as more rain fell in a region where two weeks of storms have swollen rivers and lakes beyond their limits.
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Wet weather struck the Gulf Coast states once again Tuesday, with storms and rain reported from eastern Texas through the Mississippi Delta and into Florida.
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Torrential overnight rainfall flooded a handful of North Texas towns Monday, killing at least five people and stranding residents and their pets on the roofs of their homes.
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Heavy rains and whipping winds struck southeastern Texas on Wednesday as Tropical Storm Humberto closed in on the Texas coast from the Gulf of Mexico.
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Heavy rain Monday in the San Antonio and Austin areas flooded streets, stranded cars and closed roads. Rising creeks and streams also threatened some homes, forcing residents to move to higher ground.
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Met ireann has issued a severe weather warning and forecasts gusts of up to 100 m.p.h. in exposed parts of the west and south this evening.
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A man was swept away by rising water during a storm that drenched parts of Texas and left the region under a flash flood warning on Friday, authorities said.
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A cold front moving through Texas spawned several tornadoes, killing one person and destroying several homes. The front followed about four days of thunderstorms and flooding remained a concern.
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Dry weather spread across the Plains Friday, while an intense heat wave continued to push temperatures into the triple digits in the West.
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A pair of fronts sweeping through the eastern half of the country was expected to bring widespread rain on Saturday. The West was forecast to be mainly dry.
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Forecasters predicted a low pressure system in the Gulf of Mexico could bring showers and thunderstorms from eastern Texas to the lower Mississippi Valley on Tuesday, while stormy weather was also expected in much of the central U.S.
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Much of Southern California was pounded Wednesday by a powerful storm that dumped as much as a foot of rain in the mountains of Los Angeles County.
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Torrential overnight rainfall flooded a handful of North Texas towns Monday, killing at least four people and stranding residents and their pets on the roofs of their homes.
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Much of the nation was clear Sunday, except for pockets of precipitation in Texas, the Carolinas, Florida and parts of California.
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Call it the instant hurricane. Humberto, which grew faster than any storm on record from tropical depression to full-scale hurricane landfall, surprised the Texas-Louisiana coast early Thursday with 85-mph winds and heavy rain that knocked out power to more than 100,000 and left at least one person dead.
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GAINESVILLE, Tex., June 18 -- Torrential overnight rainfall flooded a handful of North Texas towns on Monday, killing at least five people and stranding residents and their pets on the roofs of their houses.