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Once a Category 5 hurricane, Willa slammed western Mexico this week as a dangerous Category 3 storm.
The storm unleashed winds higher than 100 mph, causing widespread power outages and destruction. Thousands evacuated prior to the storm's impact.
Willa made landfall south of Mazatlan, near the community of Escuinapa, sparing the major resort area from the worst of the storm.
A family stands near their damaged home and debris in the aftermath of Hurricane Willa, in Escuinapa, Mexico, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2018. Emergency workers on Wednesday were struggling to reach beach towns left incommunicado by a blow from Willa. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
Meanwhile, the strongest tropical system so far in 2018 slammed the Northern Mariana Islands this week.
Super Typhoon Yutu made landfall across Tinian and Saipan on Wednesday, dealing a catastrophic blow of damaging winds and torrential rainfall to both islands.
Yutu was equivalant to a Category 5 hurricane and packed sustained winds of 180 mph (290 km/h).
The direct strike destroyed homes, snapped trees and power lines and caused roofs to collapse on Tinian and neighboring Saipan.
“There’s a lot of damage and destruction,” Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marina Islands’ delegate to U.S. Congress told the AP. “It’s like a small war just passed through.”
It is not clear how many people were injured. More than 100 homes were destroyed, according to the New York Times.
A firefighter was killed in Spain this week amid flooding in the southern part of the country.
According to the Associated Press, the man was killed when his firefighting truck overturned on a flooded road over the weekend.
Intense rain has battered the region, damaging the village of Campillos.
A firefighting truck is seen after crashing near the village of Campillos, Spain, where heavy rain and floods have caused severe damage and the death of a firefighter according to Spanish authorities, on Sunday, Oct. 21 2018. (AP Photo/Javier Fergo)
A group of middle school students and teachers was visiting hot springs near the Dead Sea in Jordan when flash flooding swept through the region on Thursday afternoon, local time.
The torrent of water, triggered by heavy rain, took the group by surprise. At least 20 people have died and 35 others injured, according to The Associated Press (AP).
A series of earthquakes struck just off the coast of the island of Zakynthos, Greece, on Friday, rattling tourists but resulting in little damage.
About 20 quakes have occurred since midnight local time, ranging from 4.3 to 6.8 in magnitude, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).
A woman with a boy walk at the main harbour of Zakynthos island, western Greece, as the sidewalk next to moored boats is cracked and warped after an earthquake on Friday, Oct. 26, 2018. (Yannis Liakos/InTime News via AP)
Parts of the northeastern and midwestern U.S. experienced snow over the weekend.
"Most of the snow was in higher elevations in the mid-Atlantic and through the northern Great Lakes Saturday night behind the cold front that pushed through," AccuWeather Meteorologist Alan Reppert said.
Light snow blanketed areas from Wisconsin to New York.
Across New England, locally damaging storms downed trees, caused power outages and spawned a tornado.
The strongest storms hit Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts early this week. Two EF-1 tornadoes ensued, one in Rhode Island and the other in Massachusetts. Thousands were without power.
Large hail hit parts of Arizona this week amid severe storms.
"Quarter-sized hail was reported around Glendale, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix," AccuWeather Meteorologist Brian Thompson said.
Flooding continues to pound parts of Texas in what has already been a wet month.
Five state parks were forced to close due to various flooding, according to Texas Parks and Wildlife. There is no timetable for reopening, according to local NBC station KXON.
The combination of tropical moisture from Willa, Vicente and a non-tropical storm will renew the risk of flooding rain in Texas during the middle of this week.
Portions of Texas have received two to four times their average monthly rainfall during October.
The storm from the South has evolved into a potent and disruptive nor'easter with gusty coastal winds, drenching rain and high-elevation snow, which will occur into this weekend. Some of the moisture fueling the heavy rain can be traced back to Hurricane Willa.
NASA shared an image of a rectangular iceberg that appeared floating off the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, near the Larsen C ice shelf.
A skyscraper climber dubbed the "French Spider-Man," Alain Robert, has been charged with a public nuisance offense after scaling one of London's tallest buildings, according to BBC News.
Robert was seen tackling London's 662 feet Heron Tower without safety gear or rope on Thursday, Oct. 25. Robert is due to appear before City of London Magistrates' Court later.
People watch from inside the building as urban climber dubbed the French Spiderman, Alain Robert scales the outside of Heron Tower building in the City of London, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018. Heron Tower is over 200 metres high.(AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
