Tropical Storm Eugene is moving away from Mexico’s Pacific coast and is weakening after bringing rain to some parts of Baja California. The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Eugene was centered about 325 miles west of the Baja resort of Los Cabos. Its maximum sustained winds had decreased to about 60 mph on Sunday night and it was moving west-northwest at 20 mph. The Mexican government had worried the storm could cause heavy rains along the coast, but Eugene began moving farther out to sea. Eugene is the fifth named storm of the eastern Pacific hurricane season and it is forecast to weaken to a tropical depression on Monday.
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - A much drier pattern returns through Thursday with near-seasonable summer-like temperatures. A pattern change looks to favor a period of showers and thunderstorms later next week into next weekend, according to the National Weather Service (NWS) in Reno.
A rash of thunderstorms expected to form and roam the southwestern United States later this week will bring lightning that could spark new wildfires, AccuWeather forecasters warn. The storms that develop, especially in the mountains of Central and Southern California from late Wednesday through Friday, will feature lightning but very little rainfall and are known as dry thunderstorms. This is a dangerous recipe as the region barrels into the annual wildfire season. The threat of these dry thunde