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A critical power structure near Bluff looks like a sinking Leaning Tower of Pisa after waves of floods have inundated southeast Utah over the past week. Now, as the area braces for another rise in the San Juan River, Bluff Mayor Josh Ewing is worried that a new surge could cause the damaged power pole to collapse. If it does, he said, hundreds of families in Navajo Nation communities to the south could lose power and Bluff could lose cell service for “a very long time.” Rains roared down washes in southeast Utah on Sunday and Monday, flooding Bluff’s post...

A helicopter plunged into the waters of Biscayne Bay near Miami, Florida, on Wednesday morning, triggering a massive emergency response as rescue crews raced to the scene. Three people were reportedly aboard the aircraft. Two were rushed to a trauma center, while a third person is feared dead. According to WSVN 7News, the small helicopter crashed near Nixon Beach, southwest of Key Biscayne, sending emergency responders scrambling to the area. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue confirmed that crews responded to the crash at approximately 11:26 a.m. Wednesday near Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park. According to NBC 6 South Florida, rescue officials...

Pieces of the tail of the Learjet that crashed in Florida have been found miles away from the crash site, which suggests that part of the aircraft broke off before it hit the ground, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. Federal investigators found three pieces of the jet's left elevator between 1.3 and 3.8 miles from the impact site in Palm Beach County, Florida, NTSB member Thomas Champman said Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal reported. The plane's elevator controls the aircraft's pitch up or down, and without it, an aircraft cannot recover from a nose dive. Chapman said that...

Heavy rainfall produced flash flooding and mandatory evacuations in a wide swath of the Southwest on Sunday as weary residents in the normally arid region dealt with another massive drenching. Residents of Pagosa Springs, a southwestern Colorado town of more than 2,000 in the Rockies located near ski resorts and known for its hot springs, were bracing for its main river to rise to historic levels. Town officials warned in a Facebook post of potentially 'catastrophic flooding' as the San Juan River was forecast to crest at more than 20 feet late on Sunday night. 'To put the forecast into...

These nations are in the hot seat. An alarming map from the Climate Impact Lab shows where Super El Niño will cause the most additional heat deaths as the weather anomaly gains steam in the Pacific. According to the apocalyptic cartography, dubbed the El Niño Heat Mortality Tracker, over 373,000 additional people will perish between October 2026-March 2026 with Nigeria, India and Brazil accounting for a third of the death toll. This comes as the anomalous weather system — measured by sea surface temperatures — propelled water temps in the Niño 3.4 region of the East-Central Pacific to record 3.4...

Precipitation monitors recorded more than seven times normal rainfall in parts of southeastern Utah over the past month, driving a dramatic rise in Lake Powell and transforming the San Juan River. ... SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — A month of extraordinary rainfall across southeastern Utah has sent water pouring into Lake Powell, lifting the reservoir's elevation by nearly 10 feet and turning the normally placid San Juan River into a raging torrent. Precipitation monitors in Bluff and at the Hans Flat Ranger Station tell the story. While southwestern and northern Utah received about twice their normal precipitation over the last...

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A disaster emergency has been declared by Gov. Jared Polis over flooding in La Plata, Archuleta, Montezuma, Dolores, Hinsdale, San Miguel, Ouray, San Juan, Mineral, Alamosa, and Rio Grande counties. A mandatory evacuation order has been issued for residents along the San Juan, Rio Blanco, Navajo and Piedra rivers in Archuleta County. All low-lying and flood-prone areas along the rivers are under mandatory evacuation, according to the Archuleta County Sheriff’s Office and the town of Pagosa Springs. Two evacuation centers have been opened by the Red Cross of Western Colorado: .... All schools in the Archuleta School District will be...

An off-the-charts Super El Niño that’s expected to peak this winter could be oddly good for New York City — while other parts of the US may be slammed by storms and flooding, forecasters said Thursday. The “behemoth” weather system — measured by sea surface temperatures — could rise to more than six times that of a typical El Niño between November and January, according to the World Meteorological Organization. “This is literally off the monitoring charts that we have used for the past four decades,” Celeste Saulo, secretary of the WMO, said Wednesday. In the Big Apple, it could...

The pilot of a small plane flying over Wisconsin reported ice building up on the aircraft's wings and requested permission to descend, according to the Sauk County Sheriff's Office. A short time later, the plane crashed, killing all six people aboard, including a child. The Piper PA-46 went down Tuesday night, Oct. 13, in a wooded area near Mirror Lake State Park, about 10 miles west of Wisconsin Dells. The aircraft had been traveling from Kenosha to Menomonie. The pilot reported the ice accumulation while flying at approximately 24,000 feet. Air traffic control cleared the aircraft to descend, the National...

Devastated Long Beach homeowners launched a scathing attack on Mayor Rex Richardson after Tropical Storm Rachel destroyed their multimillion-dollar beachfront houses. Dennis Poulsen, 84, built his beachside mansion on Ocean Boulevard 21 years ago and saw “just a little bit of water” seep inside last week, but his anger toward city hall ran deep. “The mayor of Long Beach doesn’t give a damn about this community… His natural constituency is not here and he doesn’t really care,” he told the Daily Mail. For some residents, the storm turned dream homes into devastating losses. Natalie Cabrera, 59, who had rented a...

As polar ice melts in the Arctic, shipping lanes are opening up, making the region a new zone of superpower competition. Writer Rana Foroohar got an up-close look aboard the USS Healy, a Coast Guard icebreaker. She says that traversing the North Pole by ship — once a "largely conceptual" route — is now becoming a "real possibility" for two or three weeks a year. "If you are taking one of these Arctic routes, you can save as much as 40% of the time it would take you to go from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and depending on the...

Has climate hysteria finally run its course? I ask because the latest Hollywood blockbuster on the subject seems to have bombed. Digger, in which Tom Cruise plays an oil tycoon so intent on drilling that he causes an ice shelf off Greenland to collapse, provoking climatic disaster, took only about $8 million in its first weekend, not great when it needs $280 million of box office takings just to break even. According to seasoned observers it is on course to lose Warner Bros $245 million, which would make it one of the worst cinema disasters of all time. Not even...

Hurricane Rachel took a sharp turn in the Pacific Ocean and is moving toward Southern California, with forecasters predicting it could arrive early Sunday. It is projected to weaken into a tropical storm before making landfall. “The current forecast shows it coming ashore about 100 miles south of San Diego, but the path could shift as far north as Orange County,” the New York Post reports. More from the New York Post: The National Weather Service says a large weather system moving in from the northwest will push Rachel off course. “This will cause Rachel to slow down and then...

In the depths of the North Atlantic, a vast system of swirling currents carries warm tropical waters north, preventing Europe from freezing. But as climate change takes effect, this oceanic heat pump will weaken and might even fizzle out. If it does, Europe could be plunged into far lower temperatures. A colder-than-usual patch of water just south of Greenland, nicknamed the “cold blob,” has some scientists worried that this slowdown in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is already well under way. Other researchers have examined climate models, surveyed sea temperature records and run simulations to conclude that the ocean...

A Canadian medical plane traveling from Bermuda to Boston, carrying six people, vanished very early Saturday morning. No Americans were on the doomed plane, according to ABC News. The Gulfstream G-100 departed Bermuda at approximately 12:40 Saturday morning and plunged 10,000 feet before it lost communication with the FAA shortly after 1:20 am. The FAA issued a Search and Rescue alert, according to Fox News. Air Traffic Control Audio captured the moments before the plane vanished. The US Coast Guard is currently searching for the missing aircraft. Four Canadians and two Bermudians were reportedly on the flight. “You’re coming in...

You see it all the time on social media after big floods or hurricanes. Someone invariably pulls out a fake meme of a shark swimming up the street, in the subway, or some such thing. Except sometimes, perhaps, memes can come true. That seems to be the case after the nor'easter hit southern New Jersey. My colleague Sister Toldjah covered some of the big issues that hit up and down the Eastern Seaboard. There was a lot of flooding in the area of Surf City, New Jersey, with the flooding approaching four feet high in some areas. But one resident...

Strong crashing waves from the violent nor’easter uncovered a 19th-century shipwreck buried under Nantucket sand as the storm battered the East Coast with heavy rain, gale-force winds and coastal flooding. A pallet of waterlogged timber held together by rusted nails and strands of seaweed was discovered on a beach on the south shore of the famed Massachusetts Island Saturday, according to video shared by the Nantucket Current on Saturday. The wooden segment is believed to be from the Warren Sawyer, a New Orleans-bound schooner that crashed on nearby Miacomet Beach in 1884. The ship, carrying cargo consisting of cotton and...

A nor’easter is intensifying Friday as it barrels up the East Coast, expected to bring wild winds and potentially dangerous flooding to New York City and the tri-state area this weekend. Residents in New Jersey and Long Island should expect “widespread” power outages, Fox Weather warns — though the entire NYC metro region stands a chance of losing power from wind gusts as strong as 70 mph. The cyclone will also likely bring hazardous coastal flooding, according to the latest forecasts.