Several days of heavy rainfall has saturated northern Florida from the Panhandle to Jacksonville. ...more

April 4, 2009

BROOKSVILLE -- Even with rain in today's forecast, March will end with well-below-normal rainfall around the Tampa Bay area. Rain measuring stations scattered around Hillsborough, Pinellas and Pasco operated by the Southwest Florida Water Management District show the region rain is far below half what's normally received in a typical March. ...more

March 31, 2009

People seemed happy to dodge raindrops while running into Lakeshore Mall on Sunday morning. ...more

March 30, 2009

Weary residents of this sandbagged city came together in churches Sunday, counting their blessings that the Red River finally stopped rising and praying the levees would hold back its wrath. A brief levee break that swamped a school provided a warning of the kind of threat that still hangs over them in the days ahead. ...more

March 29, 2009

Rain from an approaching front today dampened wildfires that raged in Saturday's dry, windy conditions and allowed firefighters to contain most of them. ...more

March 29, 2009

A squall line ahead of a cool front brought some valuable rain overnight, though the amount of rain hardly qualified as a deluge. Wet Windy Weather Across Tampa Bay ...more

March 29, 2009

After a week of piling sand on top of sand on top of sand to hold back the Red River, which has risen to levels never seen before in North Dakota and Minnesota, there was cause for optimism on Saturday. The river, which had been rising last week at a rate of 3 feet a day, unexpectedly slowed down and even appeared, according to new National Weather Service predictions, to recede. ...more

March 29, 2009

The National Weather Service gave weary Fargo residents a dose of good news Saturday, saying the flood outlook for the Red River seems to be improving and may not be as dire as originally expected. ...more

March 28, 2009

For a change, it was rain, not pollen, falling from the sky in the Tampa Bay area Monday. The National Weather Service expected some places to get one-quarter to one-half inch. Even for places that got only one-tenth of an inch, it was the first measurable rain for more than three weeks. It also was the last likely shot at rain for at least the rest of the workweek because dry air will shuffle over the region starting today. The next time forecasts mention possible rain is the weekend. ...more

March 24, 2009

The single-engine turboprop airplane that crashed just short of Butte airport jerked to the left before nose-diving into a cemetery, killing all 14 people aboard, a witness said Monday. ...more

March 23, 2009