Diana Leonard

• Extreme Weather

Waves continue to pummel the West Coast, flooding beaches as far south as Los Angeles and scattering logs across roads as far north as southern Oregon.

• Weather

“People are advised to stay out of and well away from the water,” the National Weather Service for the Bay Area said as California is bracing for giant waves.

• Extreme Weather

The Golden State is bracing for more floods, not even a year removed from one of its wettest stretches on record.

• Extreme Weather

Thanks to its California’s steep terrain, dense population and vast area burned by wildfires over the past several years, it probably takes less rain to cause serious flooding in the state than in other locations typically hit by hurricanes and tropical storms.

• Extreme Weather

More than 10 inches of rain could fall in some parts of Southern California, but dangerous flooding could happen anywhere. Flood watches blanket a wide swath of the Western U.S.

• Weather

The risk is high for more blazes through Thursday.

• Weather

Many spots face heightened wildfire risk in the coming weeks and months — from the West to the Deep South to the Upper Midwest, as well as Hawaii and Alaska.

• Weather

The highest wildfire risk is in the Southwest, where some areas are under an excessive heat warning through the holiday with temperatures above 115 degrees.

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While much of the continent is roasting under heat domes, coastal Californians have been shivering for most of the year.