Spring dumped so much rain on the U.S. that most of the country is drought-free for the first time in decades. But in parched Florida and Georgia, wildfires have destroyed hundreds of thousands of acres of forests and pastureland. There’s …
More drought-relieving rainfall is expected from Friday through the weekend in the United States crop belt, which is slowly recovering soil moisture after suffering the worst dry spell in decades last year. Agricultural meteorologists said wet weather is forecast for …
Rain will fall early this week in the northern U.S. Midwest, with from 1 to 2 inches expected across a broad parched swath of corn and soybean land roughly north of Interstate 80, an agricultural meteorologist predicted Monday. “It’s good …
Insured losses from Tropical Storm Talas will be range between $150 million and $600 million, according to Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide. Talas is the season’s 12th named storm, the seventh severe tropical storm and the fifth typhoon of the …
Sioux Falls is drying out from a storm that dumped nearly 6 inches of rain on the city. The Argus-Leader reports that the record rain came in just over two hours on Wednesday morning. Police say they received reports of …