The US had a rare year without a hurricane make landfall, but it saw too much extreme rainfall and flash flooding across the country.

“Flooding is one of the most damaging and fast-moving threats during storms, so preventive measures are key,” states Laura Finson, Director of Product and Strategy at Brinks Home. “Keep gutters, downspouts, and storm drains clear to reduce water buildup, and use waterproofing and sump pumps with battery backups to protect basements.”

Winter storms are unleashing air travel chaos nationwide, leaving airports overwhelmed and travelers scrambling as severe weather continues to spread.

Vukelich said crews are being careful on gravel and rougher streets. “A lot of those really soft streets, or streets that, you know, are unfortunately a little bit rougher than others. The areas where we see that rougher infrastructure, we want to be really, really careful in there because we can cause a lot of damage.”

San Francisco has endured 18 days without rain since November 20, as a massive high-pressure dome over the northeastern Pacific diverts storm systems northward into Canada. This blockade threatens to make December 2025 California's driest month in nearly a century,

STORMS OF THE century, 100-year floods, a perplexing Heat Dome, wildfires turning Seattle into New Dehli — all number among the recent destructive weather events here in Washington.

The deadly storms that devastated Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand in late November were "supercharged" by higher sea temperatures and made worse by rapid deforestation, scientists said in a study published on Thursday.

John Ryan, KUOW environment reporter, describes how a series of powerful storms overwhelmed Washington's rivers and communities.

Swirling underwater eddies are aggressively melting two Antarctic glaciers, a recent study found, including the one that could raise sea levels by multiple feet.