A surge of rain moved across Southern California and the Desert Southwest U.S. Thursday, causing several mudslides and debris flows. The moisture is associated with the remnants of Tropical Storm Mario that fell apart over the eastern Pacific earlier in the week. More rain is expected in California Friday before spreading across the Southwest through Saturday.
BARSTOW, Calif.– Police and family are desperately searching for a 2-year-old boy in California who was swept away in flooding on Thursday night during heavy rains triggered by remnants of Tropical Storm Mario.

Barstow Police Department on Friday said Xavier

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Tropical Storm Gabrielle is expected to strengthen into the second hurricane of the Atlantic season by Sunday as it encounters more favorable conditions for development within the next three days, according to a Friday morning advisory from the National Hurricane Center (NHC). The NHC said the storm is expected to pass somewhere to the east of Bermuda Sunday night, but it's too soon to know what Gabrielle's exact impacts will be on the island.
Tropical Storm Gabrielle is a tilted storm.It continues to operate under strong, dry upper winds, which are pushing the thunderstorms off to the east side and not allowing it to strengthen.But the hostile conditions are forecast to let up.

The strong

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A firenado whirled through a sugarcane field during a brush fire in the Sao Paulo state of Brazil on Sept. 11.
SíO PAULO, Brazil – A "whirlpool of fire" was caught on video recently whipping through a burning field of sugarcane in Brazil. 

The fire broke out on Sept.11 between the towns of Florida Paulista and Adamantina in the state of São Paulo, according to

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