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While climate change is in general increasing the ferocity and frequency of severe weather events, the same effects may not apply to the massive snow dumps that occasionally pummel the U.S. West. The quantity of snow that falls during so-called “snow deluge” years — such as the big 2023 snow season in California — is on the decline, according to a new study, published on Monday in the Proceedings for the National Academy of Sciences. “There’s a common narrative with climate change that extreme weather events are getting more extreme,” lead author Adrienne Marshall, an assistant professor of geology and...

For seven weeks, Harry Dunn sat in the same seat before the House Select Committee on the Jan. 6 Attack. Cameras pointed in his direction snapped photos of his every reaction as details of the insurrection were shared with the public. Dunn looked on, not paying the photographers any mind. He was there for one reason: to hear the truth. Dunn, who is Black, was thrown into the spotlight in the weeks following the attack. The Capitol Police officer’s testimony before Congress detailed the horrors he faced on Jan. 6, 2021, from facing down the mob’s deluge of racial hatred...

What was the shape of Noah’s Ark? For millennia Jewish and Christian clerics, scholars, and academics, as well as others with too much time on their hands, have pondered this question. Artist rendering of the one true shape of Noah’s Ark, scientifically provenILLUSTRATION: JON BERKELEY What makes it tantalizing is the precision of the numbers in Genesis 6 (here, in the King James translation): [13] And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth. [14] Make thee...

www.news8austin.com Numerous rescues as Hill Country deluged by rain Updated: 6/27/2007 7:13:50 AMBy: News 8 Austin Staff The San Gabriel River in Williamson County is 30 feet higher than normal   Heavy overnight rains Wednesday created flood conditions in several Hill Country counties, including Williamson, Lampasas and Burnet. More than 18 inches of rain has been dumped on the area since midnight. There are multiple reports of people trapped in fast-moving water atop vehicles, on rooftops or clinging to trees.At 2:50 a.m. STARFlight rescued at least two victims from vehicles in fast moving water at San Gabriel Ranch Road/County...

CHINO, Calif. (AP) -- Herds upon herds of Southern California dairy cows are mired udder deep in a thick stew of water, manure and mud - a consequence of record rainfall that has brought economic disaster to farmers. Dairy farmers said this month's deluge in an important region of the nation's top milk-producing state has cost at least $38 million - or at least $2,000 per day per dairy - in lost milk production, dead and sickened animals and damaged infrastructure. The economic hit to the region is the worst since 1997, an infamous El Nino year when dairy farmers...

Looks like the Outer Banks is about to be caught with their pants down! Hurricane Alex is now a category two (11:00 am est) and appears to be headed directly into Pamlico Sound. That puts the east side of the storm directly over Hatteras Island, which at this point is at the height of the tourist season. No evacuation orders were issued for this storm. Every one thought it would be a harmless little puppy that would remain offshore. Let's hope it makes a turn to the east right away. Otherwise, there could be trouble!!!

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