FOX WEATHER

Dramatic videos and photos are emerging from across the Tennessee Valley and Appalachians after catastrophic and deadly flooding was reported across the region over the weekend.

A massive water main break inundated a snow-laden neighborhood in the Chicago suburb of Skokie, Illinois, on Friday, flooding homes and cars and causing a frozen mess.

Footage shot on Thursday shows the devastation caused by an atmospheric river drenching Southern California, particularly in communities burned by the Eaton and Palisades wildfires just weeks ago.

Slick roads and whiteout conditions caused by a winter storm led to a multi-vehicle pile-up involving more than 100 cars, trucks and semi-trucks in northwest Oregon on Thursday.

Tropical Cyclone Zelia rapidly strengthened off the coast of Western Australia on Wednesday. The Bureau of Meteorology, Australia's national weather service, said the cyclone was Category 4 on Wednesday, with the expectations that the cyclone could near Category 5 strength before landfall.

A magnitude 4.1 earthquake shook some Northern California communities early Tuesday morning.

A pair of earthquakes struck just minutes apart near San Bernardino, California, on Monday morning.

Torrents of rain, with some areas receiving up to 30 inches since last week, have pounded parts of Australia as severe storms continue to unleash widespread flooding.

A large avalanche has closed a section of a central Idaho highway, and officials say the road will remain closed "until further notice" until the massive amounts of snow are removed and conditions are determined to be safe for drivers.

A magnitude 5.2 earthquake shook the Greek Aegean islands on Sunday, beginning another week of what geologists are calling an extended earthquake swarm that has sent tourists and residents fleeing.