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.

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

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.

The administrator of the worst-affected area, the Kalehe territory of South Kivu province, told The Associated Press by phone that more bodies were recovered Sunday, including many found floating in Lake Kivu.

The chopper was sent to a cruise ship to pick up a 76-year-old passenger in medical distress when the weather suddenly deteriorated.