Capital Beijing and several provinces in China will be affected by thick, dense sandstorms that will severely affect visibility, Chinese weather authorities said on Wednesday.

A strong late-season Pacific storm brought more wind, rain and snow to saturated California on Tuesday as the first full day of spring showed little change from the state’s extraordinary winter.

A skier was killed in an avalanche on Sunday outside a Colorado ski resort boundary, just a day after authorities recovered the body of another avalanche victim, authorities said.

Snow and rain has helped alleviate dry conditions in many parts of the western U.S. Even major reservoirs on the Colorado River are trending in the right direction.

Two men were found dead after floodwaters poured into a slot canyon near the Utah-Arizona border, endangering three groups of hikers who had to be hoisted out by helicopter.

California’s 11th atmospheric river left the storm-soaked state with a bang Wednesday, bringing flooded roadways, landslides and toppled trees to the southern part of the state as well as drought-busting rainfall that meant the end of water restrictions for nearly 7 million people.

A major winter storm dumped more than a foot of snow on parts of the Northeast, knocking out power, and more snow was on the way, forecasters said Tuesday.

The East and West coasts braced for a "double whammy" of powerful storms Tuesday, with storm-battered California facing potentially "catastrophic" flooding as the Northeast prepared for a powerful nor'easter, forecasters said.

Mozambique and Malawi on Monday were counting the cost of Tropical Storm Freddy, which killed more than 100 people, injured scores and left a trail of destruction as it ripped through southern Africa for the second time in a month over the weekend.

Two strong storm systems moved ashore on the East and West coasts simultaneously Monday night as California faced a fresh threat of flash flooding and heavy mountain snow.

A second atmospheric river is on its way to California, just as the state contends with a levee breach, evacuations and other damage from this week's winter storm.

California is facing a fresh battering of severe weather this weekend, with a winter storm expected to bring heavy snow, rainfall and the threat of flooding to parts of the state.

A series of warm atmospheric river storms are expected to bring another bout of flooding to California, continuing a season of dramatic — and damaging — rain and snow.

A Southern California woman caught in a snowstorm dies at age 93 after being trapped in her home

As residents of California mountain communities have been snowed in for more than a week, two teenage hikers lost for five days emerged unharmed , officials said.