Flash flood california today

Fearing additional fire hazards and the often deadly consequences of downed trees, the state's power companies are preparing for widespread outages for thousands of residents. Pacific Gas and Electric has already reported its first shutoffs across the Bay Area.  … [Read more...] about As California sees dangerous wind gusts, Hawaiian islands hit with flash flooding

'It's really persistent heavy rain, the rain really is going to be persistent, just continuing all the way through today and tomorrow and into Thursday, it's really just the prolonged accumulation of rainfall rather than a short come and gone weather event,' he said.  … [Read more...] about ‘Storm Christoph 1 – Ferrari 0’: Tempest is blamed for supercar smash while town locals listen for ‘flood sirens’ giving them 20 minutes to evacuate as three-day deluge strikes… with SNOW due on Thursday

Met Office spokesperson Nicola Maxey said: "It's a very unsettled period as we go through the week until Friday where we see colder air from the North pushing away the low pressure, so we expect a fine cold day on Friday." … [Read more...] about Storm Christoph to drop 2 months’ rain in 36 hours as UK braces for major floods

Catherine Wright, acting executive director for flood and coastal risk management at the Environment Agency, said: "That rain is falling on very wet ground and so we are very concerned that it's a very volatile situation and we are expecting significant flooding to occur on the back of that weather." … [Read more...] about UK weather: Storm Christoph to bring two months’ worth of rain and flooding fears

Today A mixture of sunny spells and showers. The showers becoming mostly confined to northwestern parts with a longer spell of rain for Scotland this afternoon, whilst southern and eastern England become mostly dry. Windy in the north. … [Read more...] about UK weather: ‘Snowmelt’ and three days of rain trigger ‘danger to life’ flood warnings

New Delhi: Google has released Chrome 88 as the latest stable version of their cross-platform web browser without any support for Adobe Flash Player.Flash reached its official end of life on December 31, when Adobe officially stopped supporting the software. On January 12, Adobe also began blocking content from playing inside Flash.Apple and Mozilla have also stopped supporting Flash, and Microsoft is scheduled to end support later this month, reports ZDNet.According to web technology survey site W3Techs, only 2.2 per cent of today's websites use Flash code, a number that has plummeted from a 28.5 per cent figure recorded at the start of 2011.First announced in July 2017, Adobe had said to stop updating and distributing Flash Player after December 31, 2020 due to the diminished usage of the technology and the availability of better, more secure options such as HTML5, WebGL and WebAssembly.Microsoft has announced to end support for Adobe Flash Player on Microsoft Edge and Internet … [Read more...] about New Google Chrome update comes without Adobe Flash

"This is a very difficult decision to suspend the search," said Coast Guard member Howard Wright, according to FOX 2. "The Coast Guard focuses on rescue activities to find a live person and we suspend the search when we are no longer confident that we’re going to be able to rescue the victim."  … [Read more...] about California boy, 12, missing after being swept into the Pacific Ocean, search suspended: report

In Northern California, a Sacramento-area woman faces misdemeanor charges related to the siege of the U.S. Capitol building. Valerie Elaine Ehrke is charged in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., with entering a restricted building without lawful authority and disorderly conduct, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. … [Read more...] about Capitol photos, videos lead to California doctor’s arrest

Officers executed a probable cause search of the vehicle and found an AR-15 with a 50-round drum magazine and a bullet in the chamber, according to police. An "It" clown mask and an unspecified amount of marijuana were also found in the vehicle. … [Read more...] about California driver arrested after ‘fully loaded AR-15,’ ‘It’ clown mask found in car, police say

NPS is requesting that anyone who was on the trail at the top of Yosemite Falls on Jan. 14 or 15 -- regardless of whether or not they saw Xie or have any information related to her -- call 209-372-0216 during business hours or the Yosemite Communications Center after hours at 209-379-1992. … [Read more...] about Chinese hiker goes missing in California’s Yosemite, officials seeking information