A BDMLR spokesperson said: "After storms and high tides, seals often haul out to rest, digest and recover. "For very young pups, rough seas can also separate mother and pup or displace pups from sheltered pupping areas. "In many cases, the mother is still nearby and will return to feed when undisturbed.

Vukelich said crews are being careful on gravel and rougher streets. “A lot of those really soft streets, or streets that, you know, are unfortunately a little bit rougher than others. The areas where we see that rougher infrastructure, we want to be really, really careful in there because we can cause a lot of damage.”

STORMS OF THE century, 100-year floods, a perplexing Heat Dome, wildfires turning Seattle into New Dehli — all number among the recent destructive weather events here in Washington.

About 100,000 people have been asked to evacuate their homes in Washington as a series of atmospheric river storms drenched the state this week.

San Francisco has endured 18 days without rain since November 20, as a massive high-pressure dome over the northeastern Pacific diverts storm systems northward into Canada. This blockade threatens to make December 2025 California's driest month in nearly a century,

Severe weather conditions over the past 72 hours in Gaza have left 14 people dead, including three children, the director general of the Gaza-based Health Ministry Munir Al-Boursh told CNN.

John Ryan, KUOW environment reporter, describes how a series of powerful storms overwhelmed Washington's rivers and communities.

The deadly storms that devastated Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand in late November were "supercharged" by higher sea temperatures and made worse by rapid deforestation, scientists said in a study published on Thursday.

Swirling underwater eddies are aggressively melting two Antarctic glaciers, a recent study found, including the one that could raise sea levels by multiple feet.

Snow is finally back in the forecast for Colorado as a trio of storms could bring snow to the state from the middle of this week through the Christmas weekend; maybe fresh snow on Christmas Day too. Current forecast models show the possibility of between 10-20 inches of snow for the northern and central mountains