Weather

From midnight Monday through about 1 p.m. Tuesday, Ketchikan received more than 8 inches of rain.

While millions of Americans went out of their way to travel somewhere to watch Monday’s eclipse for a few minutes, a few people took to the skies to watch it for hours.

Almost 50 years ago, The Fairbanks area was deluged by unprecedented rainfall.  The precipitation channeled from surrounding hills into the Chena River resulting in an epic flood that devastated the interior city. Five decades later, signs are going up around Fairbanks to remind people of what happened.

August is the rainiest month in Alaska. But how rainy? That depends on where you live.

Juneau has had very few days above 70 this summer. In contrast, Anchorage logged its warmest temperature of the year Sunday, 76 degrees.

The flooding north of Chicago has affected some 6,800 buildings and is “unprecedented,” Illinois officials said. It’s expected to worsen this weekend.