Earth's 16-Month Record Heat Streak Finally Ends
Federal meteorologists say Earth's 16-month streak of record high temperatures is finally over.
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Federal meteorologists say Earth's 16-month streak of record high temperatures is finally over.
Since Thursday evening most places in the San Francisco Bay Area got more rain than in all of October of last year, a National Weather Service meteorologist said.
A strong storm was bringing rain, heavy wind to the San Francisco Bay Area Friday, and coastal flooding was expected before the storm finished passing through the region, according to forecasters.
Federal forecasters see a weak and short-lived La Niña coming, probably next month.
Already dealing with parched conditions, the U.S. Southwest faces the threat of megadroughts this century as temperatures rise.
State regulators say they fear some water districts in drought-stricken California have abandoned conservation efforts as saving dropped off significantly.
California's 2016 water year ended Friday, marking a fifth consecutive dry year with low snowfall, officials from the Department of Water Resources said.
San Joaquin Valley farmers drilled 2,500 wells last year, 5 times the annual average for the previous 30 years.
Hollywood A-lister movie producer and Warriors co-owner Peter Guber has made it onto yet another list: The Wet Princes and Princesses of Bel-Air.
This summer's weather was relentless and hellish, crowded with the type of record-smashing extremes that scientists have long warned about.
The proposal calls for leaving 40 percent of normal flow in the San Joaquin river system to help native fish survive spawning.
Californians' water use kept creeping back up in July after the lifting of mandatory statewide conservation orders for the drought.
A UC Davis researcher says despite efforts to make it blue again, no bumper sticker campaign can curb the impact of climate change on Lake Tahoe.
California health officials are urging recreational water users to avoid contact with waters affected with harmful blue-green algae blooms.
Lisa Gregory has kept a close eye on the weather since fleeing her home. She doesn't know when she can return or whether her house was still standing.
The trees on the median in front of city hall have been around since 1990.
Stanford researchers have released a surprising new study revealing that California is sitting on top of a vast water resource that we didn't know was there, and it could hold as much as 7,000 trillion gallons.
Crews are busy counting the homes incinerated by a fire raging through rural communities around Lake Isabella in Kern County.
We just had our wettest winter in five years, but a new report by UCLA researchers finds it will take another four years like this one to make up for the water deficit we built up during the drought.
The number of trees in California's Sierra Nevada forests killed by drought, a bark beetle epidemic and warmer temperatures has dramatically increased since last year.
Crews were able to contain a 2-alarm grass fire that scorched an area near Interstate Highway 580 in Livermore Wednesday afternoon.
On the first day of summer, California's historic drought is far from over despite what had promised to be a wet, El Niño winter.
Officials in California say they're preparing to use large air-blasting incinerators to burn up trees killed by drought and a beetle epidemic ravaging Sierra Nevada forests
The Sherpa Fire, a four-day-old blaze that threatens coastal homes in Santa Barbara County, was 45 percent contained by midday Saturday.
A man who saw a KPIX 5 report about thieves stealing an East Bay woman's artificial lawn last week on Monday generously offered to replace it for free.
