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Torrential downpours in South Korea late last week have flooded roads and underpasses and sparked landslides throughout the country. Homes have been damaged, trees have been knocked over, and flights have been canceled.

Americans throughout the U.S. have woken up today to sweltering heat as more than 93 million people in the country are currently under excessive heat warnings and heat advisories, the National Weather Service (NWS) wrote in today’s alert.
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California has been grappling with storm after storm since November. The state, which was just up until recently plagued by extreme ongoing drought, is now instead at the mercy of too much rainfall all at once.

Nearly 400,000 people in the U.S. were still without power across the country Wednesday morning as wild winter weather pummeled both coasts.