Rain Hampers Search Efforts in California
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Scattered rain showers lashed waterlogged Southern California again Tuesday, hampering efforts to find survivors buried by a mudslide and prompting hundreds to flee a mountain town below a rain-swollen reservoir.
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Top seed James Blake's first-round match against fellow American Robert Kendrick at the Delray Beach International was cut short by rain on Tuesday.
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High humidity helped firefighters fight blazes across California on Wednesday, while a lack of rain allayed fears of possible mudslides and flooding, officials said.
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By Robert LaHue, Appeal-Democrat, Marysville, Calif.  Dec. 15--Despite rains that hit Yuba-Sutter in the past week, rainfall and snowpacks are below average for this time of year.   But those involved in monitoring water resources note it's still early in the water year.
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By Terence Chea, Associated Press Writer  SAN FRANCISCO  - California experienced one of its driest Januarys on record, a worrisome development for a state that relies on winter rain and snow for its water.
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HOUSTON, United States  - Rain showers shut down the ATP Masters Cup for the third day in a row as players waited out the showers and questioned putting the season-ending event in an outdoor venue.
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A slow-rolling series of storms that battered the West this week brought snowfall and high wind Thursday to parts of California, where weather-weary residents have already endured lashing rain, heavy snowfall and a destructive tornado. Since the wild weather began slogging ashore Monday, five deaths in California and two in Colorado have been blamed on storms. Searchers on Thursday recovered what they believed were the bodies of two missing college students who had vanished after their canoe capsized in a flooded Arizona creek.
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LA CONCHITA, Calif.  - At least three people were  killed, 10 hurt and up to a dozen were missing on Monday after  a hillside soaked by five days of rain collapsed onto a coastal  Southern California neighborhood.
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Weary searchers scouring Mount Hood for three missing climbers had no luck Saturday and were returning to their bases, authorities said. Air searches with Black Hawk helicopters and a C-130 cargo plane were to continue around the clock, authorities said The ground search is to resume early Sunday, weather permitting.
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The California coastline was expected to receive its first rain in over a week on Tuesday. The storm should also bring some snow to the Cascades and Sierra Nevada mountain ranges.
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Light rain has delayed the start of play on the outside courts at the Australian Open on Saturday.
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The snowpack in California is well below average for this time of year, but water officials are not ready to forecast a drought for this summer, the California Department of Water Resources said on Friday.
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As many as 200 vehicles got stuck in deep snow early Saturday in the San Bernardino Mountains as the latest in a series of storms struck California. The storms quickly moved eastward, closing all three major highways over the Sierra Nevada.
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Dry thunderstorms forecast for most of central California on Tuesday could hamper firefighters' efforts to contain massive wildfires burning by the coast and in the Sierra foothills, officials said.
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And rocket-powered cars Letters Sad news this week as California coastguards were forced to call off the search for Microsoft researcher Jim Gray who has been missing since setting out in his yacht last Sunday. A respected IT personality and database developer, Google chipped in with an offer to use its high resolution satellite imagery to aid the search:â¦
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Flurries fell across the Sunshine State on Thursday, but it appeared that growers were spared the deep freeze they feared would devastate the nation's citrus supply. Meanwhile, California was preparing for a trio of storms expected to unleash heavy rain and snow through the weekend.
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US space shuttle Atlantis touches down in California, after bad weather prevents a Florida landing.