Weather

After months of record snowmelt, Yosemite National Park officials announced they would close several campgrounds Monday due to the forecast of flooding.

Thousands are hunkering down in monasteries, pagodas and schools, seeking shelter from a powerful storm that slammed into the coast of Myanmar. At least three people have been reported killed.

Officials with the City of Port Isabel, located at the southern tip of Texas, say an apparent tornado caused extensive damage in the neighboring community of Laguna Heights. One person is dead, and 10 are injured.

It will be a sunshine tsunami for one northern Alaskan town for the next 83 days.

A man kept the bonds in a bank vault that was flooded during Katrina. He put the damaged paper in his attic, where they were found by his his family after he died.

The rare funnel was spotted near the town of St. Ignatius, about 300 miles northwest of Yellowstone.

Second Deputy Prime Minister Yolanda Díaz said that the government will modify occupational risk legislation to prohibit outdoor work when the weather agency issues red or orange alerts.